The Effect of the Cubing Strategy in the Achievement of the Basic Seventh Grade Students in Mathematics in Qalqilya Governorate and their Attitudes Towards it's Learning

This study aimed to determine the effect of the cubing strategy in the achievement of the basic seventh grade students in mathematics in Qalqilya governorate and their attitudes towards it's learning. The study tries to answer the main question: what is the effect of the cubing strategy in the achievement of the basic seventh grade students in mathematics in Qalqilya governorate and their attitudes towards it's learning? In order to answer the study questions and test is hypothesis، the researcher adopted the quasi experimental methodology in its application in the seventh grade female students. The researcher selected two groups، the experimental group being taught the geometric unit using the cubing strategy. The second group was taught using the traditional teaching methods. The study was conducted in the second semester for the scholastic year (2016-2015). The study instrument included: 1. a preparation of an educational unit using the cubing strategy to be delivered to the experimental group. 2. a post achievement test to measure students’ achievement in geometric unit. 3. preparing the attitude toward mathematics scale to measure students attitudes toward learning mathematics before and after using the cubing strategy. The researcher conducted One Way ANCOVA to test mean differences in student’s achievement in the experimental and control group، a person correlation coefficient is applied to the test the association between students achievement in both groups، the study reached the following results: 1- There is statistically significant difference at p value (0.05) between student’s achievement in the experimental and control group due to the teaching method (traditional، cubing strategy)، the results were in favor of the experimental group. 2- There is statistically significant difference at p value (0.05) between students attitudes in the experimental and control group due to the teaching method (traditional، cubing strategy)، the results were in favor of the experimental group. 3- There is a statistically significant association at p value (0.05) between students’ achievement and attitudes toward learning mathematics for the female students in the seventh grade. Based on the study findings، the researcher recommends benefiting from the advantages that the cubing strategy presents in remodeling other units، further، the researcher recommends conducting future studies by including other variables e.g. analytical thinking، motivation…etc.