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College Teaching, Jan 1, 2009

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TÜRK BİLGİSAYAR VE MATEMATİK …, Jan 1, 2011

This study investigates the contributions of the postgraduate education to in-service training of... more This study investigates the contributions of the postgraduate education to in-service training of teachers and its reflections into classroom setting. For this purpose, volunteer teachers and courses mostly chosen by them were selected and skills these courses aim to provide were determined. The sampled teachers were also observed and interviewed.

$Research paper thumbnail of The views of the teacher and students in regards to the use of the history of mathematics in the teaching of fractal subject$

Procedia-Social and …, Jan 1, 2011

Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, Jan 1, 2010

This study aims to analyze the aims of assessment process in the primary school mathematics curri... more This study aims to analyze the aims of assessment process in the primary school mathematics curricula and tools applied in this process. The assessment approaches applied, the tools used for its aims and the appropriateness of these tools to the curricula were tried to be determined by analyzing 1st to 5th grade mathematics coursebooks, teacher's books, and student workbooks. Along

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Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, Jan 1, 2009

The aim of the study is to introduce Duval's Theory of Registers of Semiotic Representations,... more The aim of the study is to introduce Duval's Theory of Registers of Semiotic Representations, and with the framework of this theory to analyze how students perceive and apply different usages of the representations for the same concept and transformations between these representations. The study was carried out with 28 students from Artvin Çoruh University the Faculty of Education Classroom

Procedia-Social and Behavioral …, Jan 1, 2011

Procedia-Social and Behavioral …, Jan 1, 2009

Evidence suggested that students who were successful in mathematics turned out to fail in real pr... more Evidence suggested that students who were successful in mathematics turned out to fail in real problems in everyday life. This may be due to the lack of building relationships between mathematics and real life. The new curriculum in Turkey recommends building relations ...

International Journal of Human …, Jan 1, 2011

Scientific Research and Essays, Jan 1, 2010

The aims of this study are "to reveal prospective physics teachers' characterization of the relat... more The aims of this study are "to reveal prospective physics teachers' characterization of the relationship between mathematics and physics" and "to analyze their abilities to model physical phenomena". For these purposes, an achievement test consisting of two parts has been administered to 24 student teachers of physics. The first part aims to reveal their opinions about the relationship between mathematics and physics and the second part aims to determine their abilities about the construction of a model. The analysis shows that the candidate physics teachers state the role of mathematics in physics in three different ways and that although they generate their own methods for modeling physical phenomena they have serious difficulties in forming a model. As a recommendation of this study, it can be said that model and modeling process should be tackled as an object and model teaching should not content with model as a tool.

Teaching Mathematics and its Applications, Jan 1, 2010

Procedural and conceptual learning are two types of learning, related to two types of knowledge, ... more Procedural and conceptual learning are two types of learning, related to two types of knowledge, which are often referred to in mathematics education. Procedural learning involves only memorizing operations with no understanding of underlying meanings. Conceptual learning involves understanding and interpreting concepts and the relations between concepts. The relationship between these learning types has been discussed for a long time. For some researchers, procedural knowledge forms the basis for conceptual knowledge, while for others the relationship is reversed. The aims of the study reported here were first to explore the nature of students' learning in traditional differential equations (DEs) courses and second to clarify the relationship between procedural and conceptual learning. To address these aims an achievement test with 13 open-ended questions, probing procedural and conceptual learning with regard to DEs, was administered to 77 candidate mathematics teachers, enrolled in a traditional DEs course. The analysis of students' responses to the test items showed that 85% of candidate teachers gave correct responses on procedural questions whilst only 30% of them gave correct responses to the conceptual questions. These findings suggest that the candidate teachers' learning was primarily procedural in the context of traditional instruction and content and that this did not lead them to develop the conceptual knowledge needed to interpret new situations properly and to produce new ideas beyond the ones they had memorized. In addition, based upon the student levels in both procedural and conceptual learning, it was concluded that conceptual learning supports and generates procedural learning but procedural learning does not support conceptual learning.

Procedia-Social and …, Jan 1, 2010

... and Post-test scores of students Studentnick Pre-test score Post-test score Rise Sinem 16 29 ... more ... and Post-test scores of students Studentnick Pre-test score Post-test score Rise Sinem 16 29 13 Kübra 12 28 16 Gözde 8 18 10 Aynur 6 11 5 Enes 6 Temel 4 10 6 Edanur 2 3 1 CM material Emrehan 0 10 10 AVERAGE 6.75 15 9.75 Meryem 15 27 12 kbal 12 30 18 Merve 9 24 ...

US-China Education Review, Jan 1, 2010

International Journal of Mathematical Education in …, Jan 1, 2010

Differential equations (DEs) are important in mathematics as well as in science and the social sc... more Differential equations (DEs) are important in mathematics as well as in science and the social sciences. Thus, the study of DEs has been included in various courses in different departments in higher education. The importance of DEs has attracted the attention of many researchers who have generally focussed on the content and instruction of DEs. However, DEs are complex issues

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Teknolojide meydana gelen hızlı gelişime rağmen ders kitapları eğitim-öğretim sürecinin ayrılmaz ... more Teknolojide meydana gelen hızlı gelişime rağmen ders kitapları eğitim-öğretim sürecinin ayrılmaz bir parçası olmaya devam etmektedir. Bu çalışmada matematik ders kitaplarının 2005 yılında yürürlüğe giren ilköğretim matematik programın genel ilkeleriyle ne derecede uyuştuğunun ve programın genel yaklaşımını ne derecede benimsediğinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla ilk olarak matematik öğretim programların yansıttığı değişimleri özetleyen bir çizelge hazırlanmıştır. Ardından bu programa göre hazırlanmış ve Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi"nde okutulan iki adet 6. sınıf matematik ders kitabı, çalışma kitabı, öğretmen rehber materyali bu çizelge doğrultusunda analiz edilmiş ve farklı ilköğretim okullarında görev yapmakta olan dört matematik öğretmeni ile yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşmeler yapılmıştır. Çalışmanın sonucunda kitapların öğretme-öğrenme sürecinde öğretim programlarının önerdiği yenilikleri yansıtmaya çalıştığı, öğrencilerin becerilerini geliştirmeye yönelik etkinliklerin bulunduğu, kitapların öğretmen ve öğrencinin yeni rolleri dikkate alınarak hazırlandığı ortaya çıkmıştır. Ayrıca, geleneksel ölçme araçlarının etkisinde kalmalarına rağmen, kitapların sonuç değerlendirmesinin yanında süreç değerlendirmesine de önem verdiği ve alternatif ölçmedeğerlendirme yöntemlerini kullanılmaya çalıştığı sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Bu sonuçlar doğrultusunda ders kitaplarının öğretim programları çerçevesinde ölçme-değerlendirmeyi daha etkili kılacak şekilde düzenlenmesi önerilmiştir.

In recent years web-based learning became considerably important. Therefore educational web sites... more In recent years web-based learning became considerably important. Therefore educational web sites should be designed to the expectations of the academicians, teachers and students. By this way we can improve the educational web sites to call upon their visitors by taking the academicians, teachers and students' advice. We aim exploring the main features that should be in the educational web site according to the views of the academicians, teachers and the students in computer and mathematics branches.

ONDOKUZ MAYIS …, Jan 1, 2009

Recent changes on the Science and Tehnology (ST) curriculum have required using alternative evalu... more Recent changes on the Science and Tehnology (ST) curriculum have required using alternative evaluation methods in learning and teaching process. The aim of this study is to determine the ST teachers' problems while using the alternative evaluation methods during their courses. To achieve this, semi-structured interviews have been conducted with 10 ST teachers from different parts of Trabzon during the academic year [2008][2009]. The data, analyzed qualitatively, reveals that the teachers have important difficulties in determining, using and evaluating these methods. At the end of the research, it has been concluded that besides the lack of physical infrastructure, labs and libraries, computer and other technologies in their schools, most of the teachers lack the knowledge and skills to implement these methods. The result of the study has shown that ST teachers need an adaptation process to appropriate the aims and importance of alternative evaluation methods effectively.

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Researches in education have been leading to several educational theories and models in the last ... more Researches in education have been leading to several educational theories and models in the last century. As a result of this, mathematics education has been affected by this development, a series of innovations has been made in the education field, and these innovations' adaptations and effectiveness have been investigated by researchers. The theory of didactical situations in mathematics is one of these educational theories. This article aims to introduce both this theory and adidactical situations which play an imminent role in this theory and to present an application of adidactical situations to describe experiences during the different phases of this theory. For this purpose, an activity on the barycentre of a triangle was administered to eight-grade students and the stages of adidactical situation were observed and video-taped. At the end of the study, taking into account the five stages of adidactical situations students' experiences were described.