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Mathematics teaching has been described by scholars to be a task found at various times to be daunting and with a recorded number o f successes and failures. It could be made to be more enticing if certain requirements are maintained. One o f these requirements is the utilization o f adequate and relevant instructional materials In this regard therefore, this paper portrays what an instructional material is: types o f instructional materials in mathematics and how best those materials could be utilized by both teachers and learners. Instructional materials are materials whose usage in reaching mathematics is believed to be instrumental in addressing learning problems. Depending upon the level o f operation o f the learner, a particular instructional material is required. Instructional materials commonly used include text books, puzzles, cones, cylinders, spheres, triangular prisms, rulers, diagrams, charts,, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, transparencies, projectors etc. The paper further recommends how teachers can best use instructional materials and strategies to apply in improvising instructional materials where they are found to be in short supply or grossly inadequate.

TOWARDS EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS IN MATHEMATICS TEACHING IN NIGERIA