ABSTRACT

The study investigated the Availability and Utilization of Mathematics Instructional Materials in Senior Secondary Schools of Akwa Ibom State. A total of twenty two (22) schools were sampled using random sampling from the three Senatorial Districts of the State, which consist of fifteen (15) public and seven (7) private schools. Random sampling technique was used to select Forty Mathematics teachers and two hundred and sixty students from the sampled schools. Six research questions and six hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. t-test statistic was used to test the hypothesis. The research instruments were Mathematics Instructional Resources Checklist (MIRCL) and Mathematics Instructional Materials Rating Scale (MIMRS) whose reliability coefficients were 0.78 and 0.75 respectively. The result of the research schools that there is a deficiency in the availability and utilization of mathematic instructional materials; there is a significant relationship between availability and utilization of Mathematics Instructional materials in the teaching of mathematics in the study area. The recommendation from the result of the study is that Mathematics teachers should endeavour to utilize the available instructional materials for effective teaching of Mathematics in Secondary Schools. Also Government should provide enough instructional materials for mathematics education in Secondary Schools.