Özet:

The concept of fraction which exists in our daily lives and interdisciplinary studies is one of the concepts that students have difficulty in understanding and solving in mathematics teaching. After the recent changes in the mathematics program, teaching this concept through concrete materials and familiar objects that they know in their lives has gain importance. Because, teaching of the concept of fraction is given from the first grade of primary school in these program changes. Following these changes and innovations, there is a need to re-examine the ways which students perceive the concept of fraction in the context of mathematics teaching. Therefore, it was examined the perspectives of the middle school students on the concept of fraction and the perception ways of the fraction concept of the middle school students; and in this context it is aimed to reveal the metaphors of the concept of fraction of the students who participated in the research. In addition, the analysis of the differences between the metaphors produced by the fifth and seventh grade students was also included. Through this study, it was observed that the students who participated in the research mostly consisted of “cake / pizza”, “knife / scissors”, “shredding whole” and “life” metaphors. Nevertheless, it was understood that using more abstract metaphors was increased with the age of the students. Also, when the metaphors produced by some of the students were examined, it was understood that these students could not fully understand the meaning and the purpose of the concept of fraction.

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