Gender Difference of Rural Grade Five Students’ Performance in Solving Word Problems Involving Measurement Formulae and Higher-Order Thinking Skills
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This study assessed the gender difference in the performance of Grade Five elementary students from the rural region in solving word problems involving measurement formulae and higher-order thinking skills. The sample of this study comprised 109 students from three types of elementary schools, namely National School (NS), Chinese National-Type School (CNTS) and Tamil National-Type School (TNTS) located in the rural region of Penang, Malaysia. The findings indicate that there is no significant difference between the mean scores of the male and female students in the rural region of Penang, but both genders were found to perform poorly in solving measurement formulae word problems involving higher-order thinking skills. This implies the needs to shift the focus of mathematics teaching from procedural fluency to mastery of mathematical reasoning as well as problem solving skills to promote rural students’ higher-order thinking skills.
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