فاعلية برنامج قائم على الاتصال الرياضي في الفهم المفاهيمي وقلق الرياضيات لدى طلبة الصف الثامن الأساسي في الأردن
The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a program based on mathematical communication in conceptual understanding and the level of mathematics anxiety among eighth grade students. The study sample consisted of (54) students of eighth grade students enrolled in two schools in the town of Ala'al belonging to the Directorate of Education of the brigade of Irbid during the second semester of the academic year 2017-2018, distributed equally to two groups (experimental, control). Experimental group subordinated to a program based on mathematical communication. The other was a control group studied by a traditional method. The study adopted quasi-experimental design. To achieve the objectives of the study, a test was conducted to measure conceptual understanding, and the measure of the concern of mathematics, were verified for their validity and reliability. The results showed significant differences between the two groups on the conceptual understanding test. These differences were in favor of the experimental group. The results showed that there were differences on the math anxiety scale in the experimental group compared to the control group. (Published abstract)