Abstract:
The aim of this study is to identify how
prospective teachers see mathematicians by the pictures
they visualized. In accordance with this purpose
phenomenology pattern which is one of the qualitative
patterns was used. The study was carried out with 160
volunteered prospective teachers. The data collection tool
to be used in this study consists of four parts. The first part
includes questions to determine demographic
characteristics of prospective teachers, second part include
drawing box prepared to define images of prospective
teachers towards mathematicians and open ended questions
towards describing drawing, third part includes the
presented options to define the image sources towards
mathematicians and the fourth part includes open-ended
questions to determine famous mathematicians and reasons.
The images of mathematicians were analyzed by the
content analyses method. When the findings of this study
are examined it might be concluded that the thought of
prospective teachers towards mathematicians are positive.
it was determined that the prospective teachers generally
perceived mathematician as with glasses, groomed, tall,
spilled hairy, apronous, suited, smiling, bellied and
scattered haired. When famous mathematicians are
examined according to program differences, it is very
important that the majority of the mathematicians on the
tablature are shown by the mathematics teacher candidates
and that one-third of the class teacher candidates do not
recognize any famous mathematicians. It is believed that
the results from at the end of the study will be helpful to
training of classroom and mathematics teacher
