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Makale Özeti:
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The word “UNESCO” was created by being taken the initials of “United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization”. UNESCO has undertaken two main objectives as it can be understood from the name of
the organization. This organization is an international organization that works for the expedience of the world in
long term and as a whole aims to serve to the aims of United Nations including humanitarian purposes.
Moreover, the organization aims to support and develop all aspects of the concepts of education, science and
culture. Based on these purposes, UNESCO has provided the preparation of many publications as book, journal,
report, and article etc. in the field of education. It is seen that some of these publications are related with
mathematics education. The aim of this study is to examine the publications of mathematics education published
by UNESCO from “Standards and Principles for School Mathematics” document of NCTM issued in 1989 to
present. These publications are comprised of article, book, report and documents placed in the publications of
education in the web site of the organization. 272 publications of UNESCO were examined with document
analysis. In the study, document analysis method, one of qualitative research methods, was used. Investigated
publications were analyzed in terms of publication years, publication types, subject areas, contents and related
countries. Descriptive analysis method was used in the process of analysis of publications. As the result of
investigation of these publications of UNESCO about mathematics education, it is revealed that the publications
focused especially on mathematics education programs of countries, international measurement and assessment
exams as TIMMS, PISA and subjects about teaching and learning mathematics.
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