AN INVESTIGATION OF VARIOUS VARIABLES’ EFFECTS ON MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ SKILLS OF RECOGNIZING FIGURE PATTERNS
Journal Title: Problems of Education in the 21st Century - Year 2013, Vol 55, Issue 7
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the middle school students’ skill of determining fgure patterns in terms of the variables of gender, grade, and mathematics achievement. Being descriptive in nature, this study conducted through relational survey method. The participants of the study were total of 137 (ffth, sixth and seventh grade) students from a middle school placed in a province of northern Turkey. Among the results of the study were that the students’ skills of detecting fgure pattern did not considerably affected by their grade levels. However, in the fgure pattern test female students were more successful than the males. Moreover, a positively-directed strong relationship was detected among the points which students get from mathematic lesson and their achievement in the fgure pattern test. Based on the observations done, the middle school students’ mistakes in the test were mostly due to their lack of attention to the questions; they mostly focused on the drawing of the fgure patterns and did not think the relation between the number of fgures and steps.
Authors and Affiliations
Abdullah Cagri Biber, Abdulkadir Tuna, Lutf Incikabi, Engin Yigit
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