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标题：The opinions of pre-service teachers on the usage of games in mathematics teaching
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作者：Neslihan Usta ; Ayşe Derya Işık ; Gülsün Şahan 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research
电子版ISSN：2149-5939
出版年度：2017
卷号：3,1
页码：328-344
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出版社：Mahmut Demir
摘要：The aim of this study is to analyse the opinions of pre-service teachers on the usage of games in mathematics teaching. The participants of this study consist of 7 fourth-grade students studying at the Primary Mathematics Teaching Department of a state university in a province in the Western Black Sea region. The pre-service teachers prepared games related to certain subjects included in the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum (2013) for a period of two years and these games were applied to the students studying in 7th grade of a public school. The qualitative approach was taken as a basis in the study. An interview form consisting of 7 open-ended questions was used as a data collection tool. In the interview form, the pre-service teachers were asked about their opinions on mathematics teaching with games, the difficulties they encountered while preparing games and whether they would use games during mathematics lessons when they became teachers. The findings of this study were obtained from the semi-structured interviews with pre-service teachers. The analysis of the data was conducted with the content analysis which is one of the qualitative data analysis techniques. At the end of the study, pre-service teachers stated that they had some difficulties in preparing games (finding a game suitable for each learning outcome and each subject in the curriculum, creating rules of the game, adaptation of a game played in daily life to the class level, preparing necessary teaching materials, etc). Moreover, it is identified in the study that pre-service teachers think that the use of games in mathematics lessons is necessary and useful, the fear for mathematics lessons can be reduced in a fun learning environment and thus mathematics lessons can become more concrete and comprehensible.