The use of linear and multi-text in mathematical texts

Mathematics is involved in many areas of life. Mathematics lessons have an important place in the education lives of students. Making the knowledge learned in this course permanent will also contribute to their academic development. Many methods and techniques are applied to make the acquired knowledge permanent. Computer aided education is one of them. As technology is used in education, the use of digital texts in education is also increasing. However, as an alternative to linear texts, hypertext that provide multimedia support also take their place in education. The aim of this research is to get the opinions of primary school teacher candidates about the use of hypertext and linear texts in mathematical texts. Case study, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. The study group of the research consists of 8 primary school teacher candidates studying at a state university in the spring semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. A semi-structured interview form and a questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions prepared by the researcher were used as a data collection tool. In the analysis of the data, content analysis was used for the interview form and descriptive analysis for the questionnaire consisting of open-ended questions. According to the data obtained as a result of the research, it was found that primary school teacher candidates find hypertext used in mathematical texts useful. It was determined that the participants who use linear text in mathematical texts save time. However; having question solution videos in question solutions parts will facilitate their learning. Keywords: Mathematics, Mathematical text, Linear text, Hypertext, Primary school teacher candidates