The Extent to which Including of productive thinking skills in the content of the mathematics book for the first grade of secondary school in Yemen
Keywords:
productive Thinking Skills, Mathematics textbooks of the 11th gradeAbstract
The purpose of this research was to determine the extent to which the Mathematics textbook of the 11th grade in Yemen includes productive thinking skills. It also determines to know the extent to which these skills are available in the textbook.
The researchers used the analytical descriptive method during the analysis stage. To achieve the aims of this research, the researchers prepared a list of productive thinking skills which are supposed to be available in the Mathematics textbooks of the 11th grade. The list includes eight skills. After verifying the reliability and consistency of the list, it has been changed into an analytical form which is used to analyze the content of 11th grade Mathematics text book.
The result revealed that the total percentage of the productive thinking skills in the Mathematics textbook of the 11th grade is very low. It is only (19.19%).
Based on the result of this research, a vision has been proposed to enrich the content of the 11th grade Mathematics book. Suggestions and recommendations have been made in this regard.
