@article{2018,title={WHAT ARE STUDENTS UNDERSTANDING FROM THE CONCEPT OF INTEGERS? THE IMAGE OF INTEGERS THROUGH THE EYES OF THE STUDENT},abstractNode={Integers are one of the concepts that form the basis of many subjects in the teaching of mathematics, which form the basis of many sets of numbers and which can find application areas in everday life. It’s envisaged that the research of the concept images of the students will contribute to the learning process of the integers. The fact that students understand from the concept of integer can be determined by their own perspectives, which can make it possible to correct the deficiencies of the learners by making more valid determinations. For this reason the aim of the study is to evaluate the concept images of the student’s eye for the integers. So the study was organised using case studies from qualitative research methods. The participants of the study are 27 students in the 7th grade who are studying at a public school in Sakarya in the academic year of 2015-2016. The data have obtained “The Concept of Integers Test” (CIT) that is prepared by researchers and has seven open-ended questions for determining students’ the concept images toward the integers. Students’ responses are examined with details and are analysed with descriptive analysis. According to the research’s findings; it is found that the majority of students have not enviable level in making sense of the concept of integers. Also, it is found that students have not enough level toward the integers images, because of the difficulties in the divison and the multiplication operations in terms of themselves. Therefore, it is observed that students have a lot of mistakes in doing operations with integers. This situation may cause occuring misconceptions of students and may cause the diffuculties in learning this concepts. Instead of memorized the definition of integers to students and doing operations mainly, it may be arranged learning environments that is caused the concept definitions to become closer to the concept images.},author={Gülşah GEREZ CANTİMER-- Sare ŞENGÜL},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}