مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري

Abstract :

The development in science and technology brings new knowledge and technical tools into every job field as well as in to the education field. This new improvement and change should be well integrated with the education field. Usually mathematics, the relationship between geometry and art in particular lately has been the topic for many discussions. In this work, the final project of 125 Mathematics Formation and Information Technologies pre-service teachers that take “Special Education Method” have been examined. Pre-service teachers also learnt how to use Geometer’s Sketchpad within this lesson. Pre-service teachers were free to choose the theme of their final project. Pre-service teachers prepared the patterns of their own choice by using Geometer’s Sketchpad. In total of 42 pre-service teachers have chosen “Anatolian Ornaments” for the theme of their final project.The purpose of this study is showing the different ways of getting to these patterns and the some important concept in geometry of the pre-service teachers that have chosen different patterns among the ones that have chosen “Anatolian Ornaments” theme. These concepts are the ones that are also use in “Anatolian Ornaments”, such as the creation of the regular polygons, motives that are drawn into a circle and orbiting around it, dividing the angles and lines in to the parts equal to the given number, the reflection, rotations and symmetry groups of the motives, coloring the motives and many more. Also besides the final project, the pre-service teacher were asked to write their opinion about the way the lesson is being taught, Geometer’s Sketchpad program and the homework that they worked on. When we went through the opinions, we saw that the most of the pre-service teachers think that the practical teaching is beneficial and Geometer’s Sketchpad is very useful for teaching geometry.