Assessment of Availability and Utilization of Instructional Resources for Teaching Primary School Mathematics in Ilorin Metropolis, Nigeria

Instructional resources are teachers’ strategic factors in organizing and providing education or pupils. It aids students to learn more comfortably and it influences students positively in their academic performance. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for this study comprised of primary school teachers in private and public schools.  150 teachers were selected from public and private primary schools in Ilorin metropolis through simple random sampling technique. Two research instruments which comprised of self-designed questionnaire and checklist. The first instrument questionnaire with reliability value of 0.74 tagged “Availability and Utilization of Instructional Resources Questionnaire (AUIRQ) while the checklist was tagged Availability of Instructional Resources Checklist (AIRC). The hypothesis tested at 0.05 were analyzed using t- test and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Findings from the study indicated that there was no statistically significant difference in the use of instructional resources for teaching primary school pupils’ Mathematics in Ilorin Metropolis based on gender (t{148} = 1.714, p>0.05), there was no statistically significant difference in  the use of instructional resources for teaching primary school pupils’ Mathematics in Ilorin Metropolis based on teaching qualifications (F {2, 147} = 1.775, p>0.05), there was no statistically significant difference in the use of instructional resources for teaching primary school pupils’ Mathematics in Ilorin Metropolis based on teaching qualifications (F {2, 147} = 1.775, p>0.05), there was no statistically significant difference in the use of instructional resources for teaching primary school pupils’ Mathematics in Ilorin Metropolis based on teaching experience (F {2, 147 = 2.033, p>0.05). Thus, it was recommended that Teachers should be encouraged to search for necessary instructional materials that can appeal to the senses of pupils, arouse their interest, encourage their participation, make learning more meaningful and promote academic standard