Abstract
The aim of this study is to identify how prospective teachers see mathematicians by the pictures they visualized. In accordance with this purpose phenomenology pattern which is one of the qualitative patterns was used. The study was carried out with 160 volunteered prospective teachers. The data collection tool to be used in this study consists of four parts. The first part includes questions to determine demographic characteristics of prospective teachers, second part include drawing box prepared to define images of prospective teachers towards mathematicians and open ended questions towards describing drawing, third part includes the presented options to define the image sources towards mathematicians and the fourth part includes open-ended questions to determine famous mathematicians and reasons. The images of mathematicians were analyzed by the content analyses method. When the findings of this study are examined it might be concluded that the thought of prospective teachers towards mathematicians are positive. it was determined that the prospective teachers generally perceived mathematician as with glasses, groomed, tall, spilled hairy, apronous, suited, smiling, bellied and scattered haired. When famous mathematicians are examined according to program differences, it is very important that the majority of the mathematicians on the tablature are shown by the mathematics teacher candidates and that one-third of the class teacher candidates do not recognize any famous mathematicians. It is believed that the results from at the end of the study will be helpful to training of classroom and mathematics teacher.
Highlights
It is known that Mathematics which is one of the oldest scientific disciplines is almost related with all scientific fields
When the answers to the open-ended questions and the drawings on which a typical mathematician image portrayed to identify the mathematician images in the minds of prospective teachers examined, it is seen that 10 female and 3 male totally 13 (28.3%) out of 46 secondary school Mathematics teacher candidates, 14 female and 2 male totally 16 (26.7%) out of 60 elementary school
When the drawings in which a typical mathematician image is depicted in order to determine the mathematician images in the minds of the prospective teachers are examined, it is seen that of the 160 teacher candidates, 130 of them (81.3%) draw their mathematics teachers as a mathematician and 30 of them (18.7%) draw mathematicians working at the university
Summary
It is known that Mathematics which is one of the oldest scientific disciplines is almost related with all scientific fields. At the same time, memorizing the rules in mathematics courses and trying to gain only mathematical processing skills by applying these rules to the questions are seen as another reason for not being liked of mathematics and perceived as a difficult course [6]. For this reason, it is thought that these negative attitudes can be solved or minimized only by teaching the mathematical concepts to be embodied, and questioning the relation between rules and mathematical concepts and how these rules are obtained [7, 8]. The necessity of teaching mathematical thinking more than mathematical skills is getting increasingly important [9]
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