Effect Of (SWOM) Strategy on Developing Mathematical Thinking Skills Among Basic Education Students

Abstract

The study aimed to find out the effect of using the SWOM strategy in the development of mathematical thinking skills for primary school students in the ALamana Sana'a. The researcher depends on the experimental approach in his study. The study's representative sample consists of (80) students from the ninth grade in the ALamana Sana'a. The representative sample has been divided into two equals groups one is an experimental comprising( 40) students which has been studied with the SWOM strategy and a control group comprising (42) students which has been studied with the usual way، In order to achieve the study objectives a teacher guide and a Student's booklet were built in the algebraic expression analysis unit، And to compile the data a mathematical thinking skill test has been done and applied to the two groups pre and post the experiment after confirming its validity and reliability which reached(0.88).  The result showed that there were statistically significant differences at the( 0.05) level of significance at the average mark of the two groups in favor of the experimental group as well as having a significant impact its value was (0.463)، the study adopted a series of recommendation the most important of which is a review of mathematical curricula so that the curriculum is set by strategies that work on learners thinking development and pay attention to the teacher's performance by training him on educational programs that change his  classroom practice and direct his interest in how to make the student more intellectual.