The Third Grade Mathematics Elementary Student Teachers' Understanding Levels of Definition, Axiom, and Theorem

The aim of this study is to investigate senior elementary mathematics student teachers’ understanding levels of definition, axiom, proposition, property, theorem, and other concepts related to these essential concepts. For this purpose, mathematics conceptions test was developed ($\\alpha$=0.60) and administrated to the senior elementary students at Mathematics Education program at Erzincan University School of Education. As a result, it was found that students have inadequate knowledgeable on these above mentioned concepts and have many misconceptions. When middle and secondary school teachers teach fundamental mathematics concepts which are definition, axiom, proposition, property, theorem, and proof and some concepts related to all these should awareness that students may have misconceptions regarding all these concepts. At the end of the study, it was proposed to the pre-service teacher regarding teaching of the above-mentioned concepts.