The Degree of Inclusion of Future Thinking Skills in Mathematics High School Textbooks Content

Abstract

The current research aimed at revealing the inclusion degree of future thinking skills in Mathematics textbooks for the 11^th and 12^th grades.  In so doing, the research followed the descriptive analytical method. Moreover, the research sample involved the content topics of (4) mathematic textbooks in natural science for the 11^th and 12^th grades by (2) textbooks per semester for the academic year 1441 AH corresponding to 2019/2020 AD. The research implemented the Content Analysis Card, with (21) sub-skills (indicators) grouped into (4) key future skills, namely: (Anticipation, Forecasting, Future Visioning, and Future Problem Solving), and validity and reliability were verified. Research findings reveled that Anticipation is the skill that is included the most in the 11^th and 12^th grades’ textbooks, as the inclusion level reached (58,72%) with “average” inclusion degree, followed by Future Visioning with an inclusion level of (29,06%) and Future Problem Solving, with an inclusion level of (20,22%) as the inclusion degree was “low”. The least included skill in the textbooks was Forecasting with an inclusion level of (13,79%) and “very low” inclusion degree.