On the studies related to the mathematics education of the gifted between 2005-2014

There are not enough sources in our country for the researchers studying mathematics education of gifted students. Therefore the purpose of this study is to analyze the studies about mathematics education of gifted students between 2004-2015 both in Turkey and the World in terms of sub aims of the studies. For this purpose, 12 sub aim category is formed and literature is screened according to those sub aims. The sample of the study encompasses 3 databases including educational studies from Inonu University e-Library, Higher Education Council National Thesis Center and Google Scholar. 101 studies were obtained from those sources and evaluated. All 101 studies were analyzed according to those criteria including the studies' type, sample, method, data analysis tecniques used, language, country, year, region, aims, designs, journal types, data bases and the levels of the thesis. At the end of data analysis it was observed that there are more foreign studies than national ones and more foreign articles are produced. Quantitative methods were preferred, t test and qualitative analysis was used as data analysis method. The most preferred language was English and America was the country where most of the studies were done. In Turkey, most of the studies were done in Central Anatolia and Marmara regions. The most productive year was 2010. Most of the studies were obtained from doctorate thesis and published in refereed journals. The most frequently used data base was ERIC. Additionally case studies were reported to be the mostly preferred qualitative study, and screening studies were the mostly encountered quantitative studies. In mixed studies convergent parallel methods were mostly used and the most frequent aim was mathematics education. Key Words: Gifted, Mathematics Education, Mathematics education of gifted students.