Research of the relationship between pre-school teachers 'mathematical pedagogical content knowledge and beliefs in mathematics education

Within the scope of this study, it was aimed to determine the mathematical pedagogical content knowledge and belief level of mathematics education of preschool teachers and to search whether there is a relationship between these data or not. The result points of pre-school teachers took from these two scales were examined using various variables. In this research, relational screening model, which is one of the general screening models, was used. 120 pre-school teachers who work under the Ministry of National Education participated in the research in the 2017-2018 academic year. "Scale of Preschool Mathematical Pedagogical Content Knowledge" and "Beliefs of Preschool Teachers Towards Mathematics Education" and "Personal Information Form" were used to obtain the research data. As a result of the research; with the results of mathematical pedagogical content knowledge of preschool teachers, respectively; there was no significant difference between gender, age, educational status, seniority, status of whether they got mathematics education in university education or not. There was a significant difference between the results of the mathematics pedagogical content knowledge scale of pre-school teachers and their status of getting or not getting in service training on mathematics education (p <0.05). The beliefs of preschool teachers about mathematics education are; there was no significant difference between gender, age, educational status, seniority, undergraduate education of teachers and whether they got pre-school mathematics education and in-service education about mathematics education or not. It was determined that there is a very weak positive relationship between pre-school teachers' mathematical pedagogical knowledge and their beliefs about mathematics education. Keywords: Belief, Mathematics education, Mathematical pedagogical content knowledge, Pre-school education, Pre-school teacher