THE EFFECT OF REALISTIC MATHEMATICS EDUCATION BASED GEOMETRY TEACHING ON STUDENT SUCCESS AND THE EVALUATION OF TEACHING: IN TERMS OF BASIC PRINCIPLES

Abstract

In recent years, there is a mathematics education approach developed by Freudenthal in the Netherlands and departure point is the idea that mind apprehends the object by means of intuition Freudenthal's opinions on mathematics: a. mathematics as human activity, b. guided reinvention and c. didactic phenomenology are collected under the name of basic principles of realistic mathematics education. Mathematics learning begins with signification and continues with mathematization process that student reaches his own mathematical knowledge. In this study the effect of Realistic Mathematics Education based geometry teaching on student achievement and whether teaching was carried out according to the basic principles were investigated. As a result, realistic mathematics education based geometry teaching had positive effect on student achievement. Teaching was carried out according to the basic principles of Realistic Mathematics Education and this result was emerged in student evaluations.

Keywords

• Realistic Mathematics Education, Geometry Teaching, Guided Reinvention, Didactical Phenomenology, Mathematization Process,

GERÇEKÇİ MATEMATİK EĞİTİMİNE DAYALI GEOMETRİ ÖĞRETİMİNİN ÖĞRENCİ BAŞARISINA ETKİSİ VE ÖĞRETİMİN DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ : TEMEL İLKELER AÇISINDAN

Öz

Son yıllarda Hollanda`da Freudenthal tarafından geliştirilen bir matematik eğitimi yaklaşımı vardır ki hareket noktası zihnin nesneyi sezgi yoluyla kavradığı düşüncesidir. Freudenthal` in matematik hakkındaki görüşleri: a. insan aktivitesi olarak matematik, b. yönlendirilmiş keşif ve c. didaktik fenomenoloji olmak üzere Gerçekçi Matematik Eğitiminin temel ilkeleri adı altında toplanmaktadır. Matematik öğrenme anlamlandırma ile başlar ve öğrencinin kendi matematik bilgisine ulaştığı matematikleştirme süreci ile devam eder. Çalışmada Gerçekçi Matematik Eğitimine dayalı geometri öğretiminin öğrenci başarısına etkisi ve öğretimin temel ilkelere göre gerçekleştirilip gerçekleştirilmediği incelenmiştir. Gerçekçi matematik eğitimine dayalı geometri öğretiminin öğrenci başarısı üzerinde olumlu yönde etkisi olmuştur. Gerçekçi Matematik Eğitiminin temel ilkelerine göre öğretim gerçekleştirildiği öğrenci değerlendirmeleri ile ortaya konmuştur.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Gerçekçi Matematik Eğitimi, Geometri Öğretimi, Yönlendirilmiş Keşif, Didaktik Fenomenoloji, Matematikleştirme Süreci,

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