TRAINEE TEACHERS' ATTITUDES ABOUT MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY USE IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

This study is planned to determine mathematics trainee teachers' attitudes about technology and material use in mathematics education. The study is conducted with a self-developed questionnaire as a survey. The second part of the survey is a Likert Type Attitude Scale which contains 31 items. Sample is a total of 125 students from a primary teacher training department. This paper includes fmdings from the scale. Descriptive statistical techniques (f, %,) were used to analyze collected data for the sample. The results show that the trainee teachers' attitudes are quite positive about materials and technology use in mathematics education. They stated that they are going to use the technology and materials in their professional mathematics teaching as well.