THE INVESTIGATION OF CONTENT KNOWLEDGE OF PRESERVICE ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS ABOUT PROBABILITY

Abstract

Change in the middle school curriculum in Turkey necessitates the study of examination of knowledge of preservice elementary mathematics teachers about these highlighted subjects, namely probability. So, this study is significant in the needs of the Turkish mathematics education literature as well as it contributes to the consequences of curriculum efforts. In order to possess an understanding of probability and statistics concepts for preservice mathematics teachers and develop a comprehension, they must have both conceptual and procedural knowledge (Hiebert & Lefevre, 1986), where it is the main concern of this study.  While using an instrument which considers probability knowledge as described in those two types of knowledge, researcher aims to understand to what extent preservice teachers are capable of conceptual and procedural knowledge of probability and statistics teaching. This paper deals with a part of data collected for the dissertation of the researcher.