The effect of activity-based teaching method on the outcomes of the rational numbers operations issue of the 7th grade students

The aim of this research is to determine the effect of activity based teaching on students' academic achievement, attitudes and retention in mathematics compared to traditional teaching method in 7th grade mathematics. In this research, pre-test and post-test control group samples were taken from experimental patterns. This research was conducted with 80 students who study 7th grade in Yıldırım Secondary school in Nusaybin district of Mardin province in 2017-2018 educational year. The research mathematics lesson was realized in 4 weeks on the topic 'Operations with rational numbers'. In the study includes an experimental and a control group chosen with by unbiased sampling. Lessons were taught in the experimental group by activity based teaching method and in the control group according to traditional teaching method. Mathematics Achievement Test and Mathematics Attitude Scale as pretest and posttest are applied to experimental and control groups. In addition, to determine retention Mathematics Achievement Test is applied again. One way covariance analysis method was used to analyze the data obtained from achievement test and attitude scale. According to the study's results, there has been a statistically significant increase in the academic achievement, attitude and permanent learning of the experimental group students who took the activity-based education.