The Effect of Using Buxton Model in the Acquisition of Mathematical Concepts among Fifth Grade Students and their Attitudes towards Mathematics in Jordan

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of using Buxton model in the acquisition of mathematical concepts among fifth grade students and their attitudes towards mathematics. The researcher selected fifth grade students at Khalid Bin Al-Waleed and Ruqaya Bint Al-Rasoul schools in Irbid city and randomly selected an experimental group of (40) students from both schools, and a control group (44) students. The Buxton model was applied to the experimental group in the integers chapter. Teaching plans were developed for both groups, building a test in the acquisition of mathematical concepts and a scale of the trend towards mathematics. It was presented to a group of experts and specialists in the methods of teaching mathematics to find its reliability and to find also the ease, difficulty and discrimination factors. After applying the test and scale on both groups, the results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the two groups in the test of acquiring mathematical concepts for the benefit of the experimental group, and the absence of statistically significant differences between the students of the experimental group and the absence of statistically significant differences between the two groups in the scale of the trend towards mathematics, and the presence of statistically significant differences between the students of the experimental group and for the benefit of students, the researchers concluded that the Buxton model has an important role in the acquisition of mathematical concepts for students, and recommended the use of Buxton model in secondary schools.

Keywords: Buxton model, mathematical concepts, attitudes towards mathematics, Ease factor, Difficulty factor, Discrimination factor