TEACHING CHAOS THEORY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL GRADE STUDENTS FROM OF MATHEMATICS TEACHERS' POINT OF VIEW

Abstract

This study aims to know the importance of teaching chaos theory for secondary school grade students from of mathematics teachers’ point of view. The study was limited to a sample of (20) mathematics teachers in Aden Governorate, For the academic year 2019-2020. Where the researcher prepared a proposed unit in Chaos Theory, and she used the descriptive approach. The researcher used the questionnaire as a tool to gather the data and to know the importance and suitable unit for secondary school grade students. To test the indication of differences, a test (Chi-Square Test) (X²) is used through the (SPSS) statistics program. The researcher reached the following results: The important of teaching chaos theory for secondary school grade students from mathematics teachers’ view. The suitability of the proposed unit in chaos theory for teaching secondary school grade students in terms of (objectives, content, evaluation).

And in the light of that, the researcher made a number of recommendations: The benefit of the proposed unit in Chaos Theory to introduce new mathematical topics in mathematics curricula at the secondary education, and into the teacher preparation programs to help them learn about chaos theory and its applications in life. Introducing topics based on some other chaotic phenomena such as the movement of the heartbeat in the field of medicine, or the movement of the solar system's planets in the field of space, and coding in the field of computers, in the content of mathematics curricula at the secondary education. And Conducting more educational studies on the introduction of new mathematical topics in chaos theory for primary education which depend on some concepts suitable for this stage.