The Effectiveness of Educational Program Based on Active Learning Strategies in Developing Mathematics Problem-Solving Skills with Basic Education Pupils in Ibb City

Abstract

The study aimed to design an educational program based on active learning strategies and test its effectiveness in developing mathematics problem-solving skills with basic education pupils in Ibb city. To achieve the objective of the study, a quasi-experimental methodology was used. A sample of  88 female pupils was randomly selected from the 6^th class in Aisha and Somia Girls Schools, Al-Dhehar District, Ibb City, Yemen. The sample was randomly distributed into two groups: experimental (44), studied the units of ordinary and decimal fractions using a program based on some active learning strategies (prepared by the researchers), and control (44), studied the two units in the traditional method. To test the effectiveness of the program in developing problem-solving skills, a Mathematics Problem-Solving Skills Test (prepared by the researchers) was administered to the two groups. The findings of the study showed that the effectiveness of the program was high as the effect size, based on Eta square ( ), scored (0.59); and there were statistically significant differences at the level ( ) between the mean scores of both groups in the post-test of as a whole, and in the sub-skills separately, in favor of the experimental one. Based on the findings of the study, the researchers recommend that authors and developers of mathematics curricula reconsider the design of school mathematics books at all educational levels, especially basic levels, and support them with active learning strategies that help pupils learn mathematics problem-solving skills.