The effects of game based teaching of probability on the achievement of mathematics lessons students of 6th, 7th, 8th grades

This study is designed to investigate the effects of game based teaching of probability on the achievement of mathematics lessons students of 6th, 7th, 8th grades.The study is conducted on 200 students of a central primary school in Çubuk, Ankara in 2008-2009 education term during 5 weeks. The lessons in the experimental groups are taught with game based teaching while the lessons in the control groups are taught in accordance with the 2008-2009 Mathematics Curriculum.In the research, experimental research model is used with pretest-posttest control group. Before the application the pretest, after the application the posttest are applied to the groups. The performance test is applied to the groups after three weeks from the end of the application. In the analysis SPSS 11.0 package program is used and results are analyzed via t-test.The results show that in the experimental group whatever learned in the lessons are more permanent and also the overall achievement level is higher than that of the control group.