A STUDY OF THE ABILITY TO SOLVE WORD PROBLEMS OF GRADE 3 STUDENTS USING A TEACHING APPROACH ON CIPPA MODEL INTEGRATED WITH POLYA’S PROBLEMS SOLVING PROCESS

Abstract

          The objectives of this research were to 1) compare the ability to solve math problem of grade 3 students by using CIPPA model with the Polya’s problems solving process with a score of 60 percent and 2) to compare the ability to solve math problem of grade 3 students by using CIPPA model with the Polya’s problems solving process before and after learning. The sample used in this research were 24 grade 3 students of Wat Banpan Siratananukul school, under the jurisdiction of the Office of Primary Education Phranakhonsiayutthaya District 2, in the first semester of the academic year 2017. The research instruments was 18 lesson plans involving the CIPPA model intergrated with Polya’s problem solving process, an achievement test woth a reliability of 0.81 and the test of the ability to solve mathematics problems with a reliability of 0.97. The statistics used for data analysis were mean, percentage, standard deviation, and t-test.
           The findings were as follows:
           1. The ability to solve math problems of grade 3 students after learning CIPPA model with the Polya’s problem solving process was significantly higher than the set criterion of 60 percent at .05 level of significance.
          2. The ability to solve math problems of grade 3 students after learning CIPPA model with the Polya’s problem solving process was higher than before learning at .05 level of significance.