Teaching Mathematics and Developing Students' Thinking Skills

Abstract: Developing students' thinking skills is one of the most important goals of teaching and learning mathematics. The present paper reviews thinking and how to develop it. It examines the meaning of thinking, its characteristics and basic components such as determination, determination, perseverance, listening to others, social intelligence, flexibility in thinking, meta cognation, and the skills needed for mathematics teachers to develop students' thinking skills. And how teacher preparation and training with regard to the development of thinking, the paper presents educational modules as a way of training for developing teacher competences which needed to develop students' thinking skills. With an integrated educational modules.