Abstract

This study examined the impact of using an interactive applet on students’ learning of radian measure. Fifty college students from two sections of Precalculus course participated to the study. In one group, students worked in-pairs and solved a set of problems by using the applet that provides unit circle and graphical representations of trigonometric functions in degree and radian units. Students in the other group received traditional instruction where they mostly engaged with the instructor’s drawings on whiteboard and related images from their textbook. All students’ answers on the pre-and-posttest and final exam questions related to radian concept were examined. The findings revealed that using an interactive applet enabled students to improve their knowledge of radian concept throughout pre-and-posttest. However, students using the applet demonstrated considerably lower performance in using their knowledge of radian to solve an application problem on the final exam than their peers receiving traditional instruction.

Citation

Demir, M. (2022). Integration of Interactive Applets into Teaching Radian Concept. In T. Bastiaens (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia + Innovate Learning (pp. 737-742). Online: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 7, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/221365/.

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