Students’ views
The students were required to compare the previous mathematics course and new mathematics course (newly developed mathematics curriculum) by considering all aspects of the course; teachers, classroom, evaluation…etc. Their responses varied. Students’ responses were consistently parallel to teachers’
responses. Most of them are satisfied with the chances in the curriculum, but a few was not. The students’ responses are summarized in table 3. Students found the last year mathematics course boring and unpleasant due to some reasons. One of those reasons was the extensive topics covered. They claimed that it took plenty times to cover some of the topics. This made the student bored. Since the teacher preferred to use the methods of lecturing and expression, the students just listened to the teachers and wrote some notes. The information was transmitted from teacher to students. As claimed by the students, teachers just tried to complete the topics to be covered without considering whether the students understood the subject studied. Further, they asserted that it was difficult for them to understand and learn some of the subjects; especially the subjects of geometry (e.g. triangles). During instructions, it seemed that the teachers were active in classroom rather than students. In this regard, parallel to teachers’ claims, the students reported that they had lack of self-confidence in classroom since the teachers were dominant in class and the interaction between students-students and students-teacher were not adequately encouraged. They got bored because they had difficulty in solving questions and doing homework, they were not encouraged to participate in classroom activities, and they generally used traditional materials like paper, pencil, blackboard rather than visualized and technological materials.