An Investigation of Prospective Teachers' Educational Digital Game Designs for Mathematics Teaching and Their Opinions on the Design Process

The aim of this study is to examine the pre-service teachers' views on the design process in designing an educational digital game for mathematics teaching. The case study method was used for the research design. In addition to the qualitative data, the digital games prepared by the participants were analyzed by the researchers. The participants were 30 pre-service teachers studying in the third year of Department of Mathematics Education at a public university. In this study, semi-structured interview form was used and student projects were examined. Participants were involved in designing an educational digital game aimed at teaching 14 weeks of Mathematics. The results of the study indicated that the process of designing educational digital games, according to the pre-service teachers' views, mostly allowed them to develop problem solving skills in the academic field, promoted creativity, and developed competencies to use technology in mathematics. In the context of technology competence, pre-service teachers showed the most improvement in gaining competence in technology use