Effect of the Van Hiele Model in Geometric Concepts Acquisition: The Attitudes towards Geometry and Learning Transfer Effect of the First Three Grades Students in Jordan

Tahani Al-Ebous

doi:10.5539/ies.v9n4p87

Abstract

<p class="apa">This study aimed to investigate the Effect of the <em>van </em>Hiele model in Geometric Concepts Acquisition, and the attitudes towards Geometry and learning transfer of the first three grades students in Jordan. Participants of the study consisted of 60 students from the third grade primary school students from the First Directorate, Amman, in the academic year (2015-2016) and they were divided randomly into a control group and an experimental group. To achieve the objectives of the study, the teacher's guide was prepared for the unit of Engineering and Statistics "taken from the text book of Mathematics of the third grade in accordance with the model of the Hill, and the preparation of test engineering concepts which consisted of 17 questions of multiple choice, in addition to the scale of attitudes towards engineering and test learning transfer effect. Data were analyzed using ANCOVA and results were as follows: there are significant differences between the average performance of each of the two groups of the study on the scale of Geometric Concepts acquisition in favor of the experimental group taught by using the van Hiele model. And there are significant differences between the average performance of the two groups on a scale of attitudes towards geometry in favor of the experimental group taught by the van Hiele model. There are significant differences between the average performance of each of the two groups on the learning transfer test in favor of the group taught by the van Hiele model.</p>

Highlights

One of the basic goals of teaching mathematics is to improve the students’ geometric thinking levels
This study aimed to investigate the Effect of the van Hiele model in Geometric Concepts Acquisition, and the attitudes towards Geometry and learning transfer of the first three grades students in Jordan
There is a need to adopt modern teaching methods to deal with this weakness and improve the students’ levels and so this study aimed to investigate the effect of using the van Hiele model in the first three grades students’ geometric concepts acquisition and the attitudes towards geometry and language transfer in Mathematics

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Introduction

One of the basic goals of teaching mathematics is to improve the students’ geometric thinking levels. The scholars paid much attention to the concepts as learning them is considered a very important educational goal in all levels of learning because they provide the learner with organized cognitive structure that could be used to distinguish new examples and interpret new situations related to them Some educationists, such as Khalifa (1999), Al-Khateb (2011) and Al-Mashdani (2011), harped on the necessity of taking care of the concepts and focusing on the concept formation process through integration of teaching the Math concept starting from the abstract phase that represents the common characteristics that distinguish the concept’s elements, followed by the generalization phase where the new elements are highlighted, till the discrimination phase where the students can distinguish between the concept’s elements. Despite the importance of Mathematical geometry, learning it faces many difficulties

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