The Effectiveness Of The Pentagram Strategy In Teaching Mathematics To Develop The Skills Of Solving Mathematical Verbal Problems For First-Year Middle Students

Abstract

     This study aims to clarify the pentagram strategy and its effectiveness in developing the skills of solving mathematical verbal problems among middle school students. To clarify this proposed strategy, the researcher chose the experimental method with partial control with two groups (experimental group and control group), where the experimental group was taught using the proposed Pentagram strategy for teaching, while the control group was taught using traditional methods. The results were shown after the procedures carried out by the researcher from choosing the research community and sample and controlling the equivalence variables for the two research groups and preparing the verbal mathematical problem solving test and taking into account the arbitrators' comments and coming out with the final test, where the results indicated the superiority of the students of the experimental group in the post-test, and the results also showed the superiority of the students of the experimental group in the post-test over the students of the same group in the pre-test to solve verbal problems. The strategy also proved its effectiveness in developing the skills of solving mathematical verbal problems by extracting the value of the adjusted gain ratio for Black, which was greater than the value determined by Black.