Arab Educational Information Network

The study aimed at verifying the effectiveness of a training program based on the strategy of creative problem solving in alleviating the mathematics anxiety and improving the ambition level of gifted students with learning disabilities in mathematics in Taif. The sample consisted of (12) gifted student with learning disabilities in the fifth grade of primary school aged between (120 - 132) months with an average age of (127) months with a standard deviation of (3.776) months. The sample was randomly distributed to two groups, the first group is experimental group consisted of seven students, the second group is control group consisted of five students , the experimental group received 18 training sessions, three sessions a week, which took about six weeks. As well as during the follow-up measurement after a month of telemetry, the results of the study to reduce the mathematics anxiety and improve the ambition level immediately after the training and continued during the follow-up measurement of training program on the creative problem solving. (Published abstract)