This study aims to determine the opinions of teacher candidates about using history of mathematics (HoM) in the instruction of mathematics. Research data was collected from elementary mathematics education 4th grade students through semi-structured interviews conducted for the purpose of collecting their opinions about using HoM in the instruction…

In this action study, instructional environments were enriched with activities related to the history of mathematics in order to deepen students' beliefs about mathematics and reveal for them fun, interesting, and useful activities. The study enrolled twenty-four 8th-grade students. Data were collected by using multiple data collection tools. The…

This study aims to determine the opinions of teacher candidates about using history of mathematics (HoM) in the instruction of mathematics. Research data was collected from elementary mathematics education 4th grade students through semi-structured interviews conducted for the purpose of collecting their opinions about using HoM in the instruction…

Teachers often look for good sources to find problems motivating students and stiffen the concepts they are going to teach and use in the classroom. This causes the question: "Where can we find good problems that can be used in classrooms?". History of mathematics presents many historical problems which can enrich the classroom…

Using history of mathematics in mathematics lessons is advised in many studies and in renewed elementary mathematics instructional program. But most of the teachers seem to be hesitated about using history of mathematics on the lessons. One of the reasons of this hesitation is that teachers have no information or they don't have enough information…

This research is a document analysis that investigates the studies on history of mathematics in pre-service, after service and graduate education. 39 studies were examined during the research. These studies analyzed according to the findings gained from the language used, study sample, type of study, research method, research design, title of…

The study reported in this article deals with the observed actions of Turkish pre-service mathematics teachers in dynamic geometry environment (DGE) as they were learning Khayyam's method for solving cubic equations formed as x[superscript 3] + ax = b. Having learned the method, modelled it in DGE and verified the correctness of the solution,…