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The purpose of this study is to define the relationship between the geometric thinking levels and the attitudes of teacher candidates While the population of this study consisted of the teacher candidates who were studying at the Department of Elementary Education of the Faculty of Education at Çukurova University the sample of this study consisted of first grade teacher candidates in the spring semester of 2009 2010 academic year This research is a descriptive survey study In the research ?Van Hiele Geometry Thinking Test? and ?Geometry Attitude Scale? were used as the data collection tool Descriptive statistics independent samples t test and one way analysis of variance were used in data analysis At the end of the research it was concluded that the teacher candidates were at various thinking levels and there was a significant but very low relationship between the attitudes of the teacher candidates towards geometry and geometry thinking

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