مهارات التفكير البصري المتضمنة في كتاب الرياضيات للصف الرابع الابتدائي

الملخص EN

The current research aimed to determine the extent to which visual thinking skills are included in the mathematics textbook for the primary fourth grade of the academic year (2019-2020) by answering the main research question: What visual thinking skills are included in the mathematics textbook for primary fourth grade? The descriptive analytical method was used in this study.

To achieve research objective, a list of the main visual thinking skills and their sub-skills was prepared, and then the textbook was analyzed according to these skills.

The reliability of results was verified through applying test retest and inter-rater methods.

The reliability value was greater than 80 % using Holsti equation.

The research found the inclusion of all of the main visual thinking skills in the textbook in percentages reached (44.04%) to the skill of explication information on visual shape in the first place, then the skill of analyzing visual shapes in percentage reached (31.35%) in the second place, then the skill of reading visual shapes in percentage reached(12.71%) in the third place, finally the skill of inferring information from visual shape in percentage reached(11.86%) in fourth place, This indicates the availability of visual thinking skills in the content of the mathematics textbook for primary fourth grade with varying percentages, According to these results, a number of recommendations and proposals have been adopted including: 1) The necessity to include visual thinking skills, and distributed it school mathematics books in a balanced way.

2) Conducting experimental studies to following up the growth of students ’visual thinking skills for all different educations stages