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HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, no.35, pp.1-12, 2008 (SSCI)
The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice elementary mathematics teachers' ability of relating mathematical concepts and daily life context. Two research questions were set; what is the preservice elementary mathematics teachers' level of relating mathematical concepts and daily life context regarding to their education year and their Grade Point Average? and is there a relationship between preservice elementary mathematics teachers' level of relating mathematical concepts and daily life context and their self efficacy towards mathematics? A survey research was designed with 194 preservice elementary mathematics teachers. A scale and its rubric were developed. Data analyses revealed that preset-vice mathematics teachers' level of relating mathematical concepts in daily life context is increased throughout their year of education. Furthermore all participants were found as efficacious towards mathematics and a correlation was captured between their self efficacy towards mathematics and level of relating mathematics in daily life context.