How Students Perceive the Math Teacher?
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Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi
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The study is aimed to put forward how the students? express their perception of math teacher visually. The study is a qualitative research conducted with 30 randomly selected 8th grade students from three elementary schools. Data are gained from document analyses and open-ended questions. For the purpose of the study, sample students were asked to draw a picture about their perception of mathematics teachers and later their ideas about that matter were taken by five open ended questions. Pictures were interpreted with the help of the subject-field specialist and findings presented by making quotations from the students? responses to the questions. According to the results, students who have positive perception about mathematics teachers exactly reflect these feelings into their pictures. They transfer many situations in their pictures that they could not express orally.