An investigation on students’ degree of acquisition related to van Hiele level of geometric reasoning: A case of 6-8th graders in Turkey

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2013-02-10

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Koç, Yusuf
Isıksal Bostan, Mıne
Seviş, Şerife
Osmanoğlu, Aslıhan
Çetinkaya, Bülent
Aşkun, Cengiz Savaş
Bulut, Safure

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The aim of this study was to examine 6-8th grade students’ performances when they were asked to identify, name, and draw geometrical objects. In order to investigate students’ geometrical structures, van Hiele theory was employed with the help of a model developed by Gutierrez et al. (1991, 1998). The data was collected from 809 6th to 8th grade middle school students in Ankara, Turkey. The analysis of the data revealed that most of the students had difficulty to think 3 dimensionally, and so to reach 1 st van Hiele level with complete acquisition. The findings are discussed and implications for educational field are presented.

Subject Keywords

Geometric reasoning, van Hiele theory, Degree of acquisition

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77143

Conference Name

Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education, (6 - 10 Şubat 2013)

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Y. Koç et al., “An investigation on students’ degree of acquisition related to van Hiele level of geometric reasoning: A case of 6-8th graders in Turkey,” presented at the Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education, (6 - 10 Şubat 2013), 2013, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/77143.