Abstract:
Aim of this study is identify how high school students see mathematicians by the pictures they visualized. In
accordance with this purpose phenomenology pattern which is one of the qualitative patterns was used as a
research pattern. The study was carried out with 150 volunteered high school students. The data collection tool
to be used in this study consists of four parts. The first part includes questions to determine demographic
characteristics of students, second part include drawing box prepared to define images of students 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 that students draw about
mathematicians were analyzed by the content analyses method. It is believed that the results from at the end
of the study will be helpful to training of mathematics teacher.
