%0 Journal Article
%T Examination of the opinions of the students about the difficult topics in 7th grade mathematics lesson
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%A Ok£¿an EV£¿RGEN
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%D 2019
%X The aim of this study is to identify topics perceived as difficult in seventh grade mathematics teaching program (2005), to put down the reasons why these topics are perceived as difficult and finally to present suggestions to overcome these difficulties. This study is composed of two parts in which quantitative and qualitative methods are used, respectively. The research was carried out in 2013-2014 spring semester, four different secondary school in province of Balikesir with 502 eighth grade students. "Seventh grade mathematics lesson topics difficulty identifying survey", which was prepared in order to determine the topics perceived as difficult, was applied to eighth grade students. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with students to support the quantitative data of the research and in order to determine the reasons why these topics are perceived as difficult by students. These interviews were conducted on randomly selected 30 students among the students to whom the questionnaire was applied. The data obtained from the interviews were analyzed using content analysis method. After determining the topics perceived as difficult in seventh grade mathematics teaching program (2005), the seventh grade mathematics teaching program (2013) is evaluated in this direction. The reason for this student perception was related to factors such as, be abstract of topics, having a greater number of topics, being some topics over the student's level, lack of sufficient time to consolidate topics, factor related to teacher, the lack of prior knowledge and teaching methods used in the lessons. Solution suggestions have been developed to overcome the difficulties by comparing the results of this study with similar studies in the literature
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/baunfbed/issue/43927/548560