Abstract

The study aimed to identify the degree of the use of STEM education system in the teaching mathematics to know the challenges that Math teachers face in the application of this system and to verify the statistically significant differences in the challenges of teaching Math at Jazan intermediate schools from the point of view of teachers of mathematics at the Jazan Education Department focusing on the factors of teacher's gender and the number of training courses. The sample of the study consisted of (162) male and female middle school math teachers. The questionnaire consisted of (41) items which was developed and applied on these teachers. The results revealed that there was a high degree of the use of STEM education in teaching mathematics at the middle schools in the Jazan Education Department. The study also found that "the challenges related to the curriculum" ranked first with an arithmetic mean of (4.02) while "challenges related to students" ranked second with an arithmetic mean of (4.01). Challenges related to mathematics teachers came in third place with a mean of (3.97). The study concluded that the factors of teacher's gender and the number of training courses show no statistically significant differences in the challenges facing the teaching of mathematics using STEM education at middle school in the Jazan Education Department.