مستوى مهارات التفكير الناقد لدى تلامذة الصف الرابع الاساسي في مادة الرياضيات و علاقته بمتغيري الجنس و البيئة دراسة ميدانية في مدارس التعليم الاساسي بمحافظة اللاذقية

The purpose of this study is to examine the level of critical thinking skills (recognition of assumptions, interpretation, deduction, inference, evaluation of argument), by fourth graders in mathematics, and investigate the effect of gender and living environment( country side, city). To that end, the researchers use the analytical descriptive method, preparing reliable, valid scales to measure critical thinking skills, the sample used consists of (127) students' in Lattakia. The results show that students poorly perform critical thinking skills (recognition of assumptions, interpretation, deduction, inference, evaluation of argument). Also, this study shows no significant difference(p=0.05) between male and female students' average scores, Rural students on the scale of critical thinking skills are better than city students, The researchers suggest teaching critical thinking skills.