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Pre-service mathematics teachers' understanding of geometric concepts through writing jokes
Sakarya University, Serdivan, Turkey.
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4561-9742
Sakarya University, Serdivan, Turkey.
2020 (English)In: Proceedings of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics / [ed] R. Marks, 2020, Vol. 40:2Conference paper, Published paper (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This study aimed to understand how geometric concepts were integrated into jokes and which contexts were preferred in the jokes. For this purpose, pre-service teachers were asked to write jokes related to geometry at the end of a Geometry course and 41 written documents were included in the data set. The data were analyzed through content analysis in a qualitative data analysis software called MAXQDA (VERBI Software, 2019). The geometric concepts used by the pre-service teachers included polygon, line, angle, circle, point, ray, line segment, plane, diagonal, edge and disc. The most frequently used geometric concept was polygon. Among th epolygons, pre-service teachers mostly used the triangle and addressed various aspects of a triangle such as triangle types, properties of triangles, auxiliary elements and concepts related to the triangle. For the contexts, the pre-service teachers mostly preferred personification, assigning human qualities and attributes to geometric concepts in the jokes.

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2020. Vol. 40:2
Keywords [en]
geometric concepts, document analysis, pre-service teacher education
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Mathematical sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-125661OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-125661DiVA, id: diva2:2021798
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British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BSRLM), Online, July 3, 2020
Available from: 2025-12-15 Created: 2025-12-15 Last updated: 2025-12-15Bibliographically approved

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