Investigation by the method of document analysis of studies on mathematics literacy in Turkey until 2020

Today, it is possible to talk about mathematics and mathematics literacy in almost every part of our daily, scientific, professional, social and even daily life. Although mathematics has penetrated our daily lives so much, it is unfortunately one of the most failed courses. Mathematics literacy is a concept introduced to the literature by PISA under the short name of the International Student Evaluation Program which the OECD implemented in 2000 under the short name of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Mathematical literacy is the capacity of students to construct constructive, reflective, critical and concrete solutions to the problems they will face in any part of their life by assimilating and internalizing the mathematical knowledge and skills they learn from the curriculum, family or outside environment at school. Inshort, mathematics literacy is the ability to integrate mathematics into life. Turkey has been participating regularly since 2003 in the PISA exams, which were implemented in 2000 by the OECD, of which it is a founding member. According to the results obtained from the reports generated as a result of PISA applications, our country ranks below the average of OECD member countries in all the applications. This situation turned the mathematical literacy of our country into a topic of discussion and research. From this point of view, mathematical literacy studies carried out in our country since 2000s were determined and a general framework was tried to be formed by determining the extent to which these studies deal with mathematics literacy, their aims, methods and learning outcomes and by determining the direction in which mathematics literacy studiest end. Inaccordance with the aim of the study, document analysis method was used in this study. In this study, we focused on determining the situation of Turkey in terms of mathematics literacy and what methods are used to develop these skills. For this reason, the scope of the study was limited to the quantitative and mixedmethods. Inline with the criteria foreseen in the research, the articles and theses in The Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre (ULAKBIM) article database and the Databases of National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education were searched. As a result, 44 of the studies reached were directly related to mathematics literacy. When the articles and theses related to mathematics literacy are examined, the aim of the majority of studies is to determine the mathematical literacy levels of the students. As a method, descriptive survey and corelational survey method are generaly used. Studies have generally been increasing towards recent years and it has been concluded that the mathematical literacy level of our country is normal and needs to be improved in terms of learning outcomes. Suggestions were made to the researchers in order to continue the studies in this field in a qualified manner. Keywords: Mathematical Literacy, Document Analysis, PISA