Availability and Use of Audio-Visual Materials for Teaching Mathematics at the Senior Secondary School in Ibadan, South-West Local Government, Oyo State

The paper investigates the availability and use of audiovisual materials for teaching Mathematics at the Senior Secondary School level in South-west Local Government Area in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The objectives are to identify various audio-visual materials that are available and used by teachers of mathematics during lessons as well as the benefits teachers derived on the use of instructional materials and the challenges militating against their usage. The study employed descriptive survey research design involving seventy- three mathematics teachers in sixteen Senior Secondary School selected randomly from twenty-four Senior Secondary School in Ibadan South-west Local Government. The main instrument for data collection was the questionnaire, of which seventy-three copies of questionnaire were distributed and sixty-eight were returned and valid for analysis while data gathered were analyzed using frequency count, table and percentage. The result revealed that audio-visual materials such as chalkboard, calculator, four figure table, graph board, mathematical textbook, charts, mathematical sets, chalk board and meter ruler were all available and utilized in all the schools while materials such as chalkboard compass, chalkboard pairs of divider and interactive white board were not available in any of the schools. Meanwhile some of the materials have disparity on the availability and their use. It also revealed that teachers derived satisfaction when teaching aids are inculcated in teaching while the major challenge was funding to acquire necessary materials Based on these findings, one of the recommendations made was that stakeholder in education sector should be of helping hand in the provision of some materials rather than depending on government only. 2021. All Rights Reserved.