An analysis of exercise problems in a 6th grade mathematics textbook

With this study, it is aimed to compare and analyze 89 released Mathematics items of TIMSS 2007 framework with 974 exercise problems of a 6th grade Turkish Mathematics textbook based on the cognitive domains of TIMSS 2007. The study used document review method. According to the findings, 71.25% of the exercise problems of the 6th grade textbook are in knowing, while 25.05% is in applying and 3.70% is in the reasoning cognitive domains. On the other hand, 30.34% of the released Mathematics items of TIMSS 2007 framework are in knowing while 51.69% is in applying and 17.97% is in reasoning. As a result, while 96.30% of exercise problems of the textbook are in knowing and applying, 69.66% of TIMSS 2007 released Mathematics items are in applying and reasoning cognitive domains. The results are discussed in the light of Turkey?s performances in the past years TIMSS frameworks, and some suggestions on textbooks exercise problems are given