Abstract:

The aim of this study is to study the mathematical association skills (MIB) of high school students within the ratio-percentage subject. The study, which is of a visual quality, included a total of 47 seventh-class students who studied in two state high schools. The study developed the Mathematical Relationship Skills Test (MIBT) consisting of seven open end questions using the theoretical structure they created for the mathematical connectivity skills by Bingölbali and Coşkun (2016). Accordingly, in the MIB, a question was put into each of the seven subcomponents of the MIB's interconceptual association, association between different manifestations of the concept, association with real life and association with different disciplines. The answers to the questions were classified according to the scores and percentage calculations were made. In MIBT, the average of the scores obtained in each question and in the total is determined by the level of mathematical association skills on the subject of the student’s ratio. The results of the study showed that students have a low MIB level according to the general and component. Students have shown the lowest performance in the subcomponents of the concept of relation with other concepts and giving a verbal example of the real life, while the highest performance in the subcomponents of the concept of dealing with the real life in a context.

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