The effectiveness of computer applications on the syllabus Mathematics for the tenth Grade from the perspective of school teachers of Public schools in the District of Tulkram

This study aims at identifying the effectiveness of computer applications on the syllabus Mathematics for the tenth Grade from the perspective of school teachers of Public schools in the District of Tulkram for the Academic year 2012-2013. The study also aims to identify the effect of the independent variables: gender, years of teaching experience, years of the use of computers in the process of teaching, work place, and class size on the effectiveness of computer applications as viewed by teachers in district of tulkarm. The population of the study is the 65 teachers teaching this syllabus in all schools. The questionnaire is distributed by the Directorate. 46 out of the 65 are collected. Thus the specimen of the study is 68% of the target population. The descriptione method is used. The other research instrument is the interview and questionnaire. The questionnaire items are 46 categorized into three categories:first Advantage of computer applications to the syllabus as perceived by teacher; second, drawbacks and difficulties of using computer applications in the syllabus; third, the overall goods and objectives of using these computer applications.The questionnaire and the interview are pilotted using cronpak alpha. The validity is 88. The results show that the average of using computer applications is 3.87 while the drawbacks average is 3.9. As for the average of goals and objectives for using applications is 3.58. there is no significance of statistical difference (a<=0.05) of the advantages of using computers due to gender, workplace, qualifictionsm, class size, the number of years of experience using computers, and teaching experience, there is, also, no significance of statistical difference (a<=0.05) of the drawbacks due to workplace, qualifications, class size, teaching experience, computer skills and use. There is a significance of statistical difference (a<=0.05) in the averages of the goals of using computer applications due to workplace and class size. The results of the interviews show that teachers reacted positionaly to the use of computer applications. There are some difficulties and drawback of using computer applications and such as syllabus is too demanding, some teachers don’t use these applications. Other teachers use other computer software. In the light of this, the researcher recommends that syllabus designers design a less demanding syllabus, and include a mandatory, compulsory unit about computers in the syllabus of mathematics for grade 10.