TY - JOUR AU - Khalid, Madihah AU - Saad, Supiah AU - Kamalludeen, Rosemaliza AU - Ismail, Nurul Hassanah PY - 2018/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - TEACHING ISLAMIC VALUES THROUGH PROBLEM SOLVING IN MATHEMATICS: A CASE STUDY JF - Al-Shajarah: Journal of the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC) JA - SHAJARAH VL - 0 IS - 0 SE - ARTICLES DO - 10.31436/shajarah.v0i0.762 UR - https://journals.iium.edu.my/shajarah/index.php/shaj/article/view/762 SP - 217-240 AB - <p>This paper presents the findings of a study which was performed to&nbsp;develop students’ Islamic values through a series of problem solving&nbsp;activities, incorporated in the teaching of mathematics. Students were&nbsp;presented with mathematical problems that allow discussions on&nbsp;some moral predicaments, posed into a problem of the day lesson.&nbsp;This pre-experimental design study involved a combined Year 4 class&nbsp;of 35 students from one international school as research&nbsp;participants. Two teachers participated directly in the study, while&nbsp;some others acted as observers. Both qualitative and quantitative&nbsp;data in the form of observation field notes, interview data (from both&nbsp;students and teachers), tests, questionnaires and observation&nbsp;checklists results were collected. The data were used to answer the&nbsp;research questions on changes in students’ performance and attitude,&nbsp;both in the mathematics topics taught and also on their moral&nbsp;reasoning. The results show increased but non-significant scores in&nbsp;mathematics. There are also improvements in moral reasoning based&nbsp;on students’ written answers of some moral questions, which is also&nbsp;supported by the interview data. The observation data display a&nbsp;gradual improvement of students’ in-class behavior in terms of their&nbsp;attitudes towards each other and towards the tasks and activities&nbsp;given. This study implies the possibility for students to learn about&nbsp;morality and values in a mathematics class through careful planning&nbsp;of tasks and activities. It highlights the belief that values can be&nbsp;learned across the curriculum, which is one of the important factors&nbsp;in building a nation of caring and civil society.</p> ER -