Teaching Mathematics and Developing Students' Thinking Skills

  • Alazab Mohamed Alazab Zahran أستاذ المناهج وطرق تدريس الرياضيات، كلية التربية بجامعة بنها، مصر.
Keywords: Developing Thinking Skills, Performance Competences, Modules.

Abstract

Developing students' thinking skills is one of the most important goals of teaching and learning mathematics. The present paper reviews thinking and how to develop it. It examines the meaning of thinking, its characteristics and basic components such as determination, determination, perseverance, listening to others, social intelligence, flexibility in thinking, meta cognation, and the skills needed for mathematics teachers to develop students' thinking skills. And how teacher preparation and training with regard to the development of thinking, the paper presents educational modules as a way of training for developing teacher competences which needed to develop students' thinking skills. With an integrated educational modules.

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Author Biography

Alazab Mohamed Alazab Zahran, أستاذ المناهج وطرق تدريس الرياضيات، كلية التربية بجامعة بنها، مصر.
Author Biography Alazab Mohamed Alazab Zahran, Professor of Mathematics Education, Benha University, Egypt.

Professor of Mathematics Education, Benha University, Egypt.

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Published
2017-11-12
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Zahran, A. (2017). Teaching Mathematics and Developing Students’ Thinking Skills. International Journal of Research in Educational Sciences., 1(1), 161 - 224. Retrieved from http://iafh.net/index.php/IJRES/article/view/31
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