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Examples play an central role both in the development of mathematics as a discipline and the process of teaching mathematics. The class environments which are not enriched with correct examples, cause students to have diffiiculties in developing strong mathematical understandings. On the other hand, the examples which teachers use, as they can ease learning if they are used in a wrong way, it causes concepts not to be properly undersood or misunderstood by the students. In this study, it was aimed to determine the examples which elementary school mathematics te-achers used in teaching of ratio and proportion according to their occupational experiences. The cross sectional investigation method which is one of the descriptive research types, was used in this study. It was analyzed in the study that the examples which 4 different mathematics teachers in 6th and 7th grades used in their lessons about the subject of ratio and proportion. In respect of example types, a structure developed by Alkan (2016) was used in order to determine the examp-le types used by the teachers. In accordance with the findings which were attained in the study, the example types used by the teachers were seen to indicate differences more or less according to their occupational experiences. While it was observed that the teachers preferred the standard examples more, it was determined that they did not use too much the out of sample examples and beginning examples. Besides, it was specified that they did not use any extreme and counter example types in their lessons.

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