Assessment and analysis of prospective mathematics teachers mathematical problem-solving skills for selected variables of math-ability, reading comprehension and attitudes toward mathematics

Middle school mathematics teachers' use of textbooks and integration of textbook tasks into practice: a mixed methods study Özgeldi, Meriç; Çakıroğlu, Erdinç; Erbaş, Ayhan Kürşat; Department of Elementary Science and Mathematics Education (2012) The current study aimed to explore middle school mathematics teachers’ use of mathematics textbooks and examine their integration of tasks in the textbooks into teaching. The framework of a mixed methods research design guided data collection in this study. A questionnaire called the Use of Mathematics Textbooks Questionnaire was developed and validated to identify the ways teachers benefit from textbooks. The factor analysis revealed four dimensions, namely Reading Student Edition Textbook, Selecting Quest...
Exploring secondary mathematics teachers’ conceptions of mathematical literacy Genç, Murat; Erbaş, Ayhan Kürşat; Department of Secondary Science and Mathematics Education (2017) The purpose of this research study was to investigate secondary mathematics teachers’ conceptions of mathematical literacy. In doing so, the following three crucial interrelated issues were addressed: (i) teachers’ conceptions of what the notion of mathematical literacy means, (ii) teachers’ conceptions of how the development of mathematical literacy could be facilitated, and (iii) teachers’ conceptions of what a mathematics curriculum emphasizing mathematical literacy should look like. The data gathered fo...
Training mathematics teachers for realistic math problems: a case of modeling-based teacher education courses Sevinç, Şerife (2018-04-01) One important goal of teacher education has been to improve pre-service teachers' understanding of the connection between real-life events and mathematics. Toward this goal, we designed two mathematics teacher education courses based on the Models-and-Modeling Perspective. This study presents a three-tier modeling investigation of (a) pre-service teachers' views about characteristics of realistic mathematics problems, and (b) teacher-level skills required to write such problems. A team of researchers analyz...
Asymptotic behavior and oscillation in higher order nonlinear differential equations with retarded arguments Dahiya, RS; Zafer, Ağacık (1997-08-01)
Statistical learning and optimization methods for improving the efficiency in landscape image clustering and classification problems Gürol, Selime; Öktem, Hakan; Department of Scientific Computing (2005) Remote sensing techniques are vital for early detection of several problems such as natural disasters, ecological problems and collecting information necessary for finding optimum solutions to those problems. Remotely sensed information has also important uses in predicting the future risks, urban planning, communication.Recent developments in remote sensing instrumentation offered a challenge to the mathematical and statistical methods to process the acquired information. Classification of satellite images...

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M. Saygı, “Assessment and analysis of prospective mathematics teachers mathematical problem-solving skills for selected variables of math-ability, reading comprehension and attitudes toward mathematics,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 1990.