Sekizinci sınıf öğrencilerinin doğal sayı, ondalıklı sayı, kesirler ve yüzde konularında kullandıkları sayı duyusu stratejilerin incelenmesi

Abstract

In this research, the aim is to determine the strategies which the 8 th grade students use in number sense problems involving on the subject of natural numbers, decimal numbers, fractions, percentages. In this research, a descriptive study was designed as a cross hatching model. There were two techniques used for data collection; which were quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative participants of the research consisted of 200 students who were attending at the 8 th grade of three middle schools in Adana. The qualitative participants of the research consisted of 40 students who attending 3 different middle schools and identifying according to voluntary basis. Number sense test was used as the data collection tool. The data obtained through the data collection tool were analysed via quantitative and qualitative analysis technics. According to the findings obtained from the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, it was seen that the students had low number sense performances and that the solutions of the students also used more rule based strategies.