A STUDY OF MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITIES ON DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS BY USING A LEARNING MANAGEMENT OF KWDL TECHNIQUE FOR UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS MAJOR STUDENTS
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The purposes of this research were to study the problem-solving abilities on differential equations by using KWDL technique learning management and to investigate the satisfaction levels of students towards learning management. The participants recruited by a purposive random sampling technique were 31 undergraduate mathematics major students from Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok, Thailand, in the second semester of the 2018 academic year. We designed the KWDL technique learning management including four instructional plans for the topic of differential equations. Each plan was divided into three periods with 50 minutes for each. The subjects were taught differential equations through the four plans. The students, as well, were assigned to take the exams of students’ mathematical problem-solving abilities on differential equations, and they were asked to complete questionnaires of students’ satisfactions after studying differential equations via our created learning management at the end. Students’ responses on the exams and questionnaires were graded and collected as the data of this study.
The research findings revealed the following: 1) after being taught the topic of differential equations via the KWDL technique learning management, over 60% of the participants satisfied the set criteria, at the statistically significant .05 level. 2) the mean score of the satisfaction of the subjects regarding learning management was at a “high” overall level.
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