Gaining entrepreneurship skills in mathematics education: the middle school mathematics course curriculum of Turkey

• Murat Tarhan ^[1] ; Elif Nur Akkaş ^[2] ; Ülkü Ayvaz ^[2]
  1. [1] Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

     Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University

     Turquía

     
  2. [2] Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University
• Localización: International journal of mathematical education in science and technology, ISSN 0020-739X, Vol. 53, Nº. 12, 2022, págs. 3228-3249
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The aim of this study is to determine the objectives in the Middle School Mathematics Course Curriculum that can be associated with entrepreneurship education and to prepare activities/questions related to these objectives to be studied in gaining entrepreneurship skills. The curriculum was examined according to the framework developed by Tarhan (2019b), which consists of the dimensions of business idea, finance, product design and production, promotion and marketing, and investment within entrepreneurship education.

    The data obtained through the examination of the objectives were analyzed by descriptive analysis, and it was determined that at least one objective could be associated with each of the dimensions at each grade level. In total, 42 objectives in the learning domains of ‘numbers and operations, geometry and measurement, algebra, probability, and data processing’ were determined related to the dimensions of entrepreneurship skills. Accordingly, sample activities/questions to be studied in gaining 20 different sub-skills of entrepreneurship education were prepared and it was suggested that further research can be conducted to investigate the effectiveness of thes