COMPARISON OF THE ATTITUDES OF ACQUIRING NUMBER CONCEPT OF THE CHILDREN EXPOSED TO TRADITIONAL AND MONTESSORI METHODS IN PRESCHOOL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Authors : Türkan YİĞİT, Abdülkadir KABADAYI

Pages : 64-82

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Publication Date : 2020-11-11

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :For decades, researchers and teachers have investigated the most effective teaching methods in educating children at every levels. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of Montessori and Traditional Teaching Methods to make the preschoolers acquire mathematical concept. Therefore, the preschoolers attending Ihsan Dogramaci Practicing Preschool under the title of Faculty of Vocational Education of Selcuk Uni-versity are taught “Mathematical Concept” via Montessori and Traditional Teaching Methods to investigate the effectiveness of them. The study is planned as an experimental one. The sample is 20 for 4 years old insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(10 for experimental and 10 for control groups); and 20 for 5 years old insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(10 for experimental and 10 for control groups);, totally 40. At the beginning of the research, 40 preschoolers are given pre-test to display the groups are equal to each other. Following pre-test, the experimental group is taught by Montessori while the control group is taught by Traditional Teaching Methods. Mann-Whitney U test Statistical under the title of Programming for Social Sci-ences SPSS 15.0 version is practiced to analyze the data. At the end of the training, both of the groups are given post test to analyze the outcomes of the methods. At the end of the research, it shows that there is significant differences between experimental and control groups for experimental one.
Keywords : Preschool, Montessori Method, Number Concept, Early mathematic learning