Investigating the effect of mathematics lesson in the manner of storytelling on students' academic achievement motivation

Mathematics can be considered as the sweetest lesson for learners, provided that various techniques of educational technology are used to objectify the abstract concepts and special rules and regulations that exist in mathematics. Considering that Iran is seeking a scientific jump, Therefore, it is necessary to use new teaching methods to achieve progress and learning and motivate students. The main purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of mathematics teaching in the manner of on improving student's academic motivation. Type of research, applied and research method is quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test design with control group. The data collection method was library and field method which in the field method the Harter academic achievement motivation questionnaire was used. The population of the study was all boy students of first-grade on primary school in Yazd city in the academic year of 2018-2019. Among the selected sample, a multistage cluster sampling method, 32 subjects with lower educational motivation were selected for research. And randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The results of data analysis using covariance analysis showed that teaching methods designed in the manner of story, improve the internal motivation of students but has no effect on the external motivation of students.