Use of Maple Software to Reduce Senior High School Students’ Errors in Integral Calculus

A quasi-experimental non-equivalent group design research was conducted to use Maple software to reduce students’ errors in integral calculus in a senior high school in the Oti region of Ghana. Convenience and simple random sampling techniques were employed to obtain a sample of 80 students, which comprised 40 students in the control group and 40 in the experimental group. Tests in integral calculus and questionnaire were used for data gathering. The analysis revealed that students committed many conceptual, procedural and technical errors when solving integral calculus tasks. The results also indicated that the students of the experimental group exposed to the use of Maple software in learning integral calculus significantly outperformed their counterparts in the control group exposed to traditional method. The researcher recommends the Maple assisted instruction in the teaching and learning of integral calculus and also the need to employed blended teaching approach using the Maple software to complement the traditional teaching strategy