Yaratıcı Drama Temelli Matematik Dersleri Hakkında Öğretmen Görüşleri

Abstract

The aim of this study was to get the opinions of a mathematics teacher about positive and negative aspects of creative drama based mathematics instruction and also to get the suggestions of teacher about this method. Data of the study were the transcripts of interview with the mathematics teacher who observed six and a half week creative drama based mathematics instruction in two 7 th grade classes. The teacher pointed out that this method provides active participation; enhances communications by group works; provides to express ideas and criticize others' ideas; offers permanent mathematics learning; gets attention of the students; and fosters students' imagination, creativity, and confidence in them. For the negative aspects, the teacher emphasized the burden creative drama based instruction bring to the teacher like preparing the lessons plans and materials, arranging the classroom environment and solving less number of mathematics problems. The teacher suggested that this method should be used in more successful classroom with smaller number of students.