Teaching the subject ‚sets‛ with the ‘dissociation and re-association’ (jigsaw)

In recent educational trends establishing learning environments in which students can express themselves is in the foreground. In this study, it is targeted to teach subject ‘Sets’ by using the ‘jigsaw technique’, one of the techniques of the cooperational teaching method. For this purpose, the subject ‘Sets’ is handled with nineteen 6th grade students of a primary school in Kocaeli in three lessons. The study is a qualitative status study. In this context, the obtained data is analyzed, interpreted and reported descriptively. At the end of the study, it is seen that the students noted enjoyed the cooperation, understood the subject better by listening to the subject repeatedly and that noticed that they needed to study harder and they enjoyed from cooperating with their friends. According to these results, several suggestions have been made to future researchers. It may be suggested that it might be useful to study in future whether the jigsaw technique has a meaningful effect on the logical thinking and critical thinking skills of the students or not, to study its effects on the problem solution processes of students and on their upper cognitive skills.

Cooperative learning ,

jigsaw technique ,

home groups ,

jigsaw groups ,

sets subject ,