The Level of Geometric Thinking of System Courses of Male and Female Secondary School Students

Abstract

The study aimed at identifying the level of geometric thinking of system courses of male and female second secondary grade students in Taif. The study used the Van Hiele test for geometric thinking codified to the Saudi environment which was applied to a random sample of (306) students and. The results of the study showed a low level of geometric thinking of the study sample, as 4.43 % of the study sample did not exceed the visual level while 55.23% of the study sample was classified on the first level, the visual level, 24.84% of the study sample was on the analytic level, 10.78% of the study sample was on the semi-inductive level while 4.91% of the study sample was on the inductive level and no male or female students of the study sample were classified on the abstract level. The results of the study also showed that there was no statistically significant difference in the level of geometric thinking between male and female students of the system courses.