Özet:

Graphic is one of the basic subjects that individual face with them at school and at the out of school (e.g. on the economy page of the newspaper, for the demographic data etc.). It is a sub-learning domain of mathematics and a subject that related with social studies, life studies, science and Turkish course. Therefore, determining the views of Pre-service class teachers on Graphics will make a significant contribution to the teaching of them so they will play important role in the learning mathematics. In this study, data were collected from 160 pre-service teachers, who attend Class teacher education department at Faculty of Education in a state university in Turkey, in 2012-2013 academic year. Descriptive survey model and descriptive analysis were used. The instrument, including four open ended questions, developed by researchers was used to determine the preservice teacher’s views. According to the results, pre-service teachers have some misconceptions but generally can define graphics with general features. They thought that teaching graphics is useful to provide permanent learning, to make easy learning and concrete. Although preservice teachers indicated that graphics are related with other courses, very few considered this fact as an advantage of teaching graphics. Additionally, it may be concluded that although preservice teacher know the graphics in primary school curriculum, they may have some problems with general type of graphics.

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