Primary Teachers Related to Application Example on a Realistic Mathematics Education

Take pleasure in mathematical activities through the use of mathematics in everyday life in the best way. According to realistic Mathematics Education (GMA) approach, the starting point of the curriculum is to provide students take part in a meaningful mathematical activity and provide conditions that may experience for students. In this study, we aimed to evaluate how GMA application process on preservice elementary teacher and determination of student opinions on these applications. For this purpose, the research was performed on 106 students (63 female, 43 male) who were studying of classroom teachers in Cukurova University. It was conducted for 5 weeks. Descriptive analysis techniques were used in the analysis of qualitative data. The findings obtained from the study showed that, preservice elementary teachers have positive thoughts about the GME and they want to practice GME in their future teaching life lessons. However, some preservice elementary teachers, they will have difficulty in setting up real-life problems, the course will take more time when processing indicated that they thought it was more difficult implementation by providing information directly.