TEACHING MATHEMATICS BY LULLABIES IN PRE-SCHOOL PERIOD

One of the oral literature products of Turkish culture which is shared from centuries before is called lullaby (Baby songs). Lullabies contain Turkish Nation’s common cultural items that gather us together. Recent researches show that the lullabies which are sung for babies has an educational dimension. With their rich themes lullabies tells about the main problems that the babies and children may confront in their school life and further years. The relation between lullabies and mathematics has been searched at this research. For this purpose the concepts of pre-school education for 3-6 year-old children has been dealt with and a categorising has been made. Then the product called “Turkish Lullabies 1” has been analysed by utilising context analysing of these categorising. According to the findings of the research, the lullabies that have been sung for centuries contain more educational concept than the concepts that are planned to be applied at the pre-school educational programme.