Abstract
The study investigated the effect of Maple Software and Geoboard on students‟ academic performance and retention of the concept of Geometry in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The pre-test, post-test, quasi experimental design was adopted as the research design. Random sampling technique was used to select an intact class of Senior Secondary School 1 from each of two randomly selected schools in the study area, which yielded one hundred and eleven SS1 students as the sample for the study. The research instruments were the Geometry Performance Test and Geometry Retention Test. Kuder-Richardson 21 formula was used to obtain the reliability coefficient of 0.84 for Geometry Performance Test, while Geometry Retention Test is a reshuffled version of Geometry Performance Test. Mean and Standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while Analysis of Covariance was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that Maple software significantly enhanced students‟ performance in Geometry, as well as the retention of the knowledge of Geometry more than Geoboard. Geoboard also had an enhancing effect on students‟ retention of the knowledge of the concept of Geometry. Based on the findings, the study recommends that the Maple software and Geoboard be integrated into the teaching and learning of Mathematics.