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Difficulties in learning and teaching statistics: teacher views
No full textThe purpose of this study is to define teacher views about the difficulties in learning and teaching middle school statistics subjects. To serve this aim, a number of interviews were conducted with 10 middle school maths teachers in 2011–2012 school year in the province of Trabzon. Of the qualitative descriptive research methods, the semi-structured interview technique was applied in the research. In accordance with the aim, teacher opinions about the statistics subjects were examined and analysed. Similar responses from the teachers were grouped and evaluated. The teachers stated that it was positive that middle school statistics subjects were taught gradually in every grade but some difficulties were experienced in the teaching of this subject. The findings are presented in eight themes which are context, sample, data representation, central tendency and dispersion measure, probability, variance, and other difficulties
Investigation of Reflections from the Digital Game-Based Learning Environment in Higher Education
No full textWith this research, it is aimed to reveal the reflections of the digital game-based learning environment. The study group of the research consists of 28 mathematics teacher candidates studying at a state university. In the research conducted within the scope of the case study, the data were collected through worksheets used in the process of playing digital games, the opinion form for the games and observations. The research constitutes the 3 week part of the Teaching Mathematics by Game course, which is conducted for 14 weeks, 2 hours theoretical per week. In the designed learning environment, digital games were introduced to pre-service teachers, they were asked to play the games, take notes regarding the game during the game play, and reveal the mathematical results behind the games. After the game activities, teacher candidates were asked to evaluate the games. The data obtained were evaluated qualitatively and the thinking styles of the teacher candidates in the process of playing games and their views on games were presented with direct quotes and screenshots. The findings of the research revealed that the designed learning environment offers prospective teachers unique opportunities to think about mathematically strong contexts and to experience different methods of teaching and learning mathematics. The learning environment provided opportunities for teacher candidates to get to know, play, and understand and evaluate the mathematics behind the games, as well as discuss, think and collaborate in a meaningful context. In the study, it was concluded that educational digital games can become a powerful tool and an effective learning environment for learners, and prospective teachers need a radical approach that makes mathematics teaching interesting.</jats:p
The effect on prospective teachers of the learning environment supported by dynamic statistics software
No full textIn this study, the effect on the achievement and attitudes of prospective teachers is examined. With this aim ahead, achievement test, attitude scale for statistics and interviews were used as data collection tools. The achievement test comprises 8 problems based on statistical data, and the attitude scale comprises 13 Likert-type items. The study was carried out in 2014–2015 academic year fall semester at a university in Turkey. The study, which employed the pre-test–post-test control group design of quasi-experimental research method, was carried out on a group of 80 prospective teachers, 40 in the control group and 40 in the experimental group. Both groups had four-hour classes about descriptive statistics. The classes with the control group were carried out through traditional methods while dynamic statistics software was used in the experimental group. Five prospective teachers from the experimental group were interviewed clinically after the application for a deeper examination of their views about ..
The impact of a game and simulation-based probability learning environment on the achievement and attitudes of prospective teachers
No full textThis study aimed to examine the impact of game and simulation-based learning environments on the success, concept knowledge, and attitude of prospective teachers regarding probability. The sample o..
Matematik ve Geometri Derslerinde Grafik Tablet Kullanımına Yönelik Tutum Ölçeği
No full textBu çalışma ile matematik ve geometri derslerinde grafik tablet kullanımına yönelik öğrenci tutum ölçeği geliştirilmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla uzman görüşleri doğrultusunda 6 faktör ve 24 maddeden oluşan 5’li Likert tipi ölçek geliştirilmiştir. Ölçek, 2010-2011 Eğitim Öğretim yılında Trabzon’da bir Anadolu Lisesinde 9, 10 ve 11. sınıftan toplam 150 öğrenciye uygulanmıştır. Çalışma araştırmacının matematik ve geometri derslerini bir yıl boyunca grafik tablet kullanarak yürüttüğü sekiz sınıf üzerinde yapılmıştır. Ölçeğin geçerlilik ve güvenilirlik çalışmalarına yönelik doğrulayıcı faktör analizi yapılmış ve elde edilen bulgular sonucunda geliştirilen ölçeğin öğrencilerin matematik ve geometri derslerinde grafik tablet kullanımı ile ilgili tutumlarını ölçmede kullanılabileceği sonucuna varılmıştır
Examination of the dynamic software-supported learning environment in data analysis
No full textThe Fatih Project in Turkey has improved software in mathematics teaching such as data analysis software. As a result, the need to inquire into the efficiency of computer-supported learning..
Teaching Game and Simulation Based Probability
Full text linkTechnology and games are the areas wherelearners are most interested in today's world. If these two can be broughttogether within the framework of learning objectives, they can be an advantagefor teachers and students. This study aims to investigate the learningenvironment supported by game and simulation. The games were used to evaluatethe basic probability knowledge of the prospective teachers, to demonstrate therole of problem solving in the formation of the mathematical knowledge, and toenable discussing mathematical ideas in a worksheet. Simulations were used forvisualization and a large number of experiments. The sampling of the study, bywhich case study research is adopted, is comprised of 40 prospective teachersat a state university in Turkey. The data were collected by introducing nineopen-ended questions by means of games, worksheets and simulation activities.The questions asked relevant to the games include making predictions about thefairness of the games, playing the games in small numbers and in big numbersand the observation of the scores, calculation of the winning probabilities ofthe gamers both experimentally and theoretically, and their comparisons. Theprocess of finding out the probability information underlying the games by theprospective teachers was analyzed qualitatively by means of worksheets,simulations and in-class observation, and the ways of thinking, intuitions,estimations, strategies, and opinions about the learning situation of theparticipants were tried to be determined. The results obtained put forward thatthe learning situation that was set up simultaneously contributed to theknowledge of probability and probability teaching of the prospective teachers;and that the candidates’ opinions about the learning situation are positive
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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