THE EFFECT OF GAMES AND ACTIVITIES ON ROUNDING AND PREDICTION SUBJECT IN SECOND GRADE MATHEMATICS LESSON
The main objective of this study is to study the effect of games and activities on rounding and prediction subject in second grade mathematics lesson. The research has been carried out in accordance with pre-test & post-test design control groups. The study was conducted on the 2nd grade students at a primary school in one of the towns of a southeast city of Turkey. Four classes, two of which are the test groups and the other two are the control groups were determined randomly, including 120 students in total, 61 of whom are from the experiment group and 59 of whom are the control group. The scale to determine the attitude of students against mathematics, success test carried out in pre-test and post-test design to test the performance of students, observational and semi-formed interview forms as well as video records constitute the means of gathering data for the research. At the end of the research, the performance of the experiment group increased, while there was no change in their attitudes against mathematics. The games and the activities practiced within the research have been shown to have a positive impact on students. The stagnation in the attitude of the students against mathematics is estimated to be caused by the shortage of time allocated for the study and the articulation inability of students. As a result of the study, it has been concluded that games and activities could be of utmost significance in all sorts of school subjects and that enriching the learning atmosphere with matching games and activities could promote permanent learning.

Keywords
Mathematics teaching, teaching with games and activities, success, attitude