Investigation of Activities in Primary School Mathematics Textbooks in Turkey within the Context of 21st Century Skills
Abstract
The purpose of the current study is to investigate activities in primary school mathematics textbooks in Turkey according to 21st century skills. The study employed the document analysis design, one of the qualitative research methods and in the analysis of the data, the descriptive analysis method was used. In the study, the activities in the mathematics textbooks approved by the Ministry of National Education (MoNE) Board of Education and Discipline (BoED) to be taught in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades of primary schools in Turkey as of the 2019-2020 school year were examined according to 21st century skills, and it was determined to which skills specified in P21 the activities were related. As a result of the study, it was seen that “learning and innovation skills” were given the most place, followed by “life and career skills” in the textbooks. When the activities in the textbooks were examined, it was concluded that the activities at all grade levels were related to the themes of “learning and innovation skills” and “life and career skills”. No activities related to the theme of “information, media and technology skills” could be found in the mathematics textbooks. In light of the findings, it can be said that in the development of activities in the writing process of mathematics textbooks, all of the 21st century skills should be taken into account and that skills and activities should be related to each other.
Keywords
Primary school , mathematics textbooks , 21st century skills
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