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The study aims to study the space skills and attitudes of high school students to geometry according to a variety of variables and to determine whether their space skills and attitudes to geometry are related. In a study conducted in accordance with the detective correlational research model, the sampling consisted of 170 students who were studying in the seventh class of four high schools in a district in the south of the Marmara region. The sample is determined by the appropriate sample method. The research data was collected using the Space Talent Test and the Geometry Attitude Scale. The data collected is encoded by entering the statistical package program and the visual statistics are calculated. T test for non-related samples in order to determine whether the students' spatial skills and attitude points to geometry differ according to their gender, and the situations in which they like to draw; one-way variance analysis is applied in non-related samples to determine whether the mathematical course is different according to the success situations. The correlation ratio is calculated to determine whether the students' spatial abilities and their attitudes towards geometry are related. The study found that the students’ spatial skill scores were not too high; that their attitude to geometry scores were quite high, and that the students’ spatial skill scores were linked to their attitudes to geometry at a positive low level. It has also been revealed that the students’ spatial skills and attitude points to geometry do not differ according to their gender, and their preference to draw; and that math lessons differ according to their success.

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The aim of this research was to investigate seventh grade students’ spatial ability and attitudes towards geometry according to various variables and to decide whether the spatial ability and the attitudes towards geometry were related. The study had the exploratory correlation research model as a research method. The study’s sample consisted of 170 seventh grade students who were from four secondary schools in a province in the south of the Marmara Region. The sample was determined through the convenience sampling method. The study’s data were collected, by using the Spatial Ability Test and Attitudes towards Geometry Scale. The collected data was decoded by the use of the statistical package program and descriptive statistics were calculated. The t test for independent samples was conducted to decide whether the students’ scores of spatial ability test and attitudes towards geometry scale differed according to their gender and their likes to draw, and the one way analysis of variance on independent groups was used to decide whether the scores of spatial ability test and attitudes towards geometry scale differed according to their mathematics achievement. The correlation coefficient was calculated to decide the degree of relationship between the spatial ability test scores and the attitudes towards geometry scale scores. It was found that the students’ scores of spatial ability test were not too high and their scores of attitudes towards geometry scale were quite high; that students' spatial ability was significantly and positively related to their attitudes towards geometry at a low level. Besides, it was found that the students’ scores of spatial ability test and attitudes towards geometry scale did not differ according to their gender and their likes to draw; differed according to their mathematics achievement and their mathematics achievement.

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