Sharifah Norul Akmar Binti Syed Zamri

Pre-service teachers challenges while interpreting statistical graphs

Nowadays statistical graphs has been widely used as a medium to communicate. Awareness of the important of statistical graphs have been realized by Ministry of Education. Therefore, Ministry of Education have included this topic into national standard curriculum as early as Standard 3. It proved that this field of study is important to our students. However pre-service teachers still faced some difficulties to comprehend various types of statistical graphs. Among the problem faced by those pre-service teachers are the difficulties to relate two statistical graphs that carrying related issues. Therefore this study will look at the types of difficulties faced by pre-service teachers when they need to interpret two statistical graphs which carried related issues. We focus on data which came from interviews which gives evidence of several problems faced by pre-service teachers when they try to comprehend those graphs that are related with each other. The discussion of results might contribute to an understand...

Problem-Solving Skills among Malaysian Students

Developing stronger cognitive abilities and problem-solving skills is increasingly a goal of education systems in many countries worldwide. In this rapidly changing world, students are confronted more and more with unfamiliar situations in their daily life where rote learning fails to serve them, and which demand problem solving skills.

Effects of Spreadsheet Towards Mathematics Learners’ Problem Solving Abilities

This paper reports the findings of a study exploring the effects of using spreadsheet towards preuniversity students’ problem solving abilities. The sample of this quasi-experimental study comprised 64 preuniversity students from a private college in Malaysia. The experimental group was taught the topic limits using a spreadsheet module while the control group was taught using the traditional module. Observation was done throughout the treatment, and data about problem solving abilities was collected, analysed and transcribed for differences in both groups. The results revealed the following differences between both groups: (a) number of correctly solved problems, (b) problem solving strategy, (c) preference in problem and solution presentation and (d) priority in problem solving.