The main purpose of this paper is to study and compare students’ mathematical performance in different types of school (ordinary, private and special) in solving a non-routine math problem. There are about 836 participants, from southern part of Iran, including 29
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The main purpose of this paper is to study and compare students’ mathematical performance in different types of school (ordinary, private and special) in solving a non-routine math problem. There are about 836 participants, from southern part of Iran, including 291 students from ordinary, 293 students from private, and 252 ones from special school. These students were asked to solve a none-routine mathematical problem. Then, the student’s strategies are categorized based on theoretical frame work, being disapproved and verified, in the literature realm. These categories are as: non-answered parts, only-public strategy, unreal answered, transformational strategy, beginning coordination strategy, and the senior one. After that, with using H Kruskal-Wallis test and U Mann-Whitney test, all data were analyzed. Results of the study also show that there is a significant relationship between the type of school and the student’s performance in that, performance of students in special school and private schools was better than performance of students in ordinary school(α=0.01).
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