College of Education for Pure Science

In fulfillment of the fourth goal of the Sustainable Development Goals (Quality Education), a master’s thesis entitled “Teaching Mathematics According to the Fragmented Knowledge Integration Strategy and Its Impact on the Achievement of First-Year Intermediate Students and the Development of Their Associative Thinking” was discussed in the College of Education for Pure Science at the University of Mosul on Monday, July 7, 2025.
The study, presented by the student (Dawood Muhammad Ali Abdul-Aziz) from the Department of Mathematics, aimed to identify the impact of teaching mathematics according to the Fragmented Knowledge Integration Strategy on the achievement of first-year intermediate students and the development of their associative thinking. The research community was determined as all first-year intermediate students in middle and secondary day schools for boys in Nineveh Governorate for the academic year (2024-2025), totaling (40,278) students distributed across (257) middle and secondary schools. The researcher then conducted equivalence among students on several variables: the students’ chronological age calculated in months, the overall average for the sixth grade of primary school, the student’s grade in mathematics in the sixth grade of primary school, and the student’s grade Intelligence, pretest of associative reasoning, parents’ educational level, and mothers’ educational level.
The discussion committee was chaired by Assistant Professor Dr. Asim Ahmed Khalil, and Assistant Professor Dr. Ahmed Obaid Owayyed and Assistant Professor Dr. Intizar Abdul-Qader Muhammad as members, and Assistant Professor Dr. Suleiman Ahmed Younis and Assistant Professor Dr. Ghanim Mahmoud Zahir as both members and supervisors.
The master’s thesis was accepted. Congratulations to the student and his supervisors on this academic achievement.

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College of Education for Pure Science
Monday, July 7, 2025