صعوبات حل المسألة اللفظية في الرياضيات لدى طلبة الصف السادس الأساسي بمحافظات غزة من وجهة نظر المعلمين

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to identify mathematical word problems solution difficulties among sixth basic graders in Gaza Governorates as perceived by mathematics teachers.

The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach as he designed a questionnaire distributed into five domains ; difficulties related to understanding word problems; difficulties related to translating word problems; difficulties related to planning to solve word problems; Executing word problems solution; and difficulties related to judging word problem solutions .

Every domain includes a number of items each represents a difficulty .

The total number of the items is twenty eight .The study tool was administered to a sample of (120) male and female teachers.

The study concluded that sixth graders face difficulties in the five domains.

The study recommended the continuous identification of the difficulties of word problem solutions and connecting textbook word problems with students life in addition to recommending mathematics teachers to adopt new teaching methods and strategies that contribute to overcoming the word problems difficulties.