Hatice Nur Erbay

İstanbul University-Cerrahpaşa · Department of Mathematics Education

The aim of this study is to examine the results of using of Second Life, an online virtual world , in the teaching of fractions at the 5th-grade level. A “Sled Dogs” activity prepared in the Second Life environment was used for this study. The research was conducted in a private school in Istanbul during the 2015–2016 academic year. The study group...

The methods and techniques used by teachers have an important place on the basis of many students’ negative perspectives and failures towards mathematics. Integrating technology into mathematics learning environments is inevitable since it is of great importance to create rich learning environments to increase students’ interest and understanding o...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the metacognitive strategies that middle school students used in the process of solving problems individually. The study group consisted of 37 middle school students in the eighth grade. The students were asked one non-routine word problem, and their written answers were collected. After solving the probl...

The aim of this study is to examine problem-solving skills and thinking styles of prospective mathematics teachers and investigate whether the thinking styles of them are related to their mathematical problem-solving skills and the problem-solving strategies preferred by them differ depending on their thinking styles. The data of the study were col...

In the present study we try to highlight prospective mathematics teachers’ ability to identify mistakes of sixth grade students related to angle concept. And also an examination of prospective mathematics teachers conceptions of angle. Study was carried out with 30 sixth-grade students and 38 prospective mathematics teachers. Sixth grade students r...

The aim of the research is to investigate the sixth-grade students’ concept knowledge about angles. The study was conducted through case-study, one of the qualitative research methods. The sample consists of 29 sixth-grade students from a public school in Istanbul at the autumn semester of 2016-2017 academic year. Open-ended 5 questions prepared by...

Mathematics is seen by many people as the best way to get a good life and a good career. It is also thought as an assistant to understand life and the world and to produce ideas about them. Therefore, new reform studies are being held to construct a new system that assists students to learn mathematics in a comprehensive way (Dursun & Dede, 2004)....

One of the primary aim of education is to train individuals as problem solvers to overcome and face problems in life. Problem solving has been the hallmark of the era we are in and takes a vital place in the objectives of all courses in education.Therefore, many studies were carried on and is still being done. In this context, the purpose of this s...

In this study, research on mathematics anxiety in selected journals published by the ULAKBIM Social Sciences Database between the years of 2000-2013 were analyzed with regard to various variables. Data was collected through document reviewing one of the qualitative research methods. The researches which used “mathematics anxiety” in their title sea...

There are many extracurricular and classroom factors that should be considered in developing problem solving skills of students in teaching Mathematics. Students who acquired the ability of problem solving will not only be successful in their lessons but also will have skills to overcome problems that they will experience in their real lives. Probl...

The main aim of this study is to point out that students may consolidate the subjects with encryption method and teachers may use cryptographic activities to evaluation students’ performance. The sample of the study composed of 33, eight grade students from public school. The cryptographic activities were applied to students. At the end of the acti...

Purpose of the study is to identify possible relationship between functioning of students’ family and their mathematical achievement. The research is based on analytical survey methodology and the study group consisted of 319 grade 7 and 8 students. As research tools “Mathematical Achievement Test” (Çanakçı, 2008) and “Family Functioning Scale” Bul...