The 5th Grade Students'Mathematical Problems SolvingSkills and its Relationship with their Social Skills

Abstract

The current research aimed at recognizing the level of 5th Grade Students' Mathematical
Problems Solving Skills, Social Skills, and its Relationship between them. The research used
the correlative descriptive approach, which is concerned with revealing the relationship
between two or more variables to find out the correlation between these variables. The
sample of the current research consisted of (58) 5th Grade Students from El-Damam, kingdom
of Saudi Arabia,the research based on two tests to collect data: a test of mathematical
problem-solving skills, and a situations test of social skills. The results of the research
revealed that the learners’ level of mathematical problem-solving skills in general and in all
the sub-skills was medium, except the level of understanding and analyzing the problem
skillwas high, The learners’level of social skills as a whole and all the sub-social skills was
also medium, , as well as the research found that there is a positive statistically significant
relationship at the level (0.01) between the learners’ mathematical problem-solving skills and
their social skills. The research also found statistically significant differences in mathematical
problem-solving skills of learners with high social skills, and learners with low social skills
favoring those with high social skills. Recommendations and suggestions for further research
were also presented.