An examination of the 7thgrade mathematics teacher’s guidebook in terms of the relationship between mathematics and science

Abstract

Mathematics curriculum for 6-8 grades (MoNE, 2011) gives importance to make connection between
mathematics and other disciplines. This program emphasizes that connection is effective on students for noticing
mathematics in real life and understanding other disciplines. When mathematics and science curricula investigated
together, common skills such as; critical-creative thinking, questioning, problem solving, etc. attract attention in
both curricula. This connection in mathematics is also reflected on the teacher guidebooks. Thus, the purpose of this
study is to reveal in which subjects, how, how often, and by which purposes, contents in the 7th grade mathematics
teacher’s books are related to the concepts of science. In the study, document analysis method was used.
Consequently, 47 concepts related to science were determined in total. 60% of them include conceptual knowledge
for science. Moreover, 40% of them have no conceptual purpose and they only aim to give daily life examples for
mathematics.