Study on the Effect of Crocodile ICT 605 Software on Mathematics Learning for Teaching Flowchart Based on Constructivism Theory

Nowadays, one of the most important issues which have drawn the attention of educational planners is how education system should face the opportunities and threats arising from development of information and communication technology so as to make the best use of them. Teaching and learning mathematics by help of information technology is a modern approach. This paper attempts to study the effect of using Crocodile ICT 605 software in teaching flowchart, based on constructivism and in line with behavioral goals, on progress of students in mathematics. For this purpose, 55 girl students of the third year of high school in the field of mathematics in Tehran were selected by quasi-experimental method. The results obtained by the above mentioned software and teacher-made test as well as statistical results (with significance level of 0.05) revealed that the use of Crocodile ICT 605 software in teaching flowchart does not help the mathematics progress of students in the level of cognitive knowledge, but is effective in meta-knowledge level of students.