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In order to make deductions, one has to conduct reasoning. Peresini and Webb state that reasoning
consists of activities involving various styles of thinking. Students are capable of abstract thinking, as
a consequence, during this period improvements are observed in students' success at mathematics.
When students improve their reasoning skill; their ability to solve non-routine problems, with which
they face for the first time in their lives, could also improve. The objective of the study is to
determine the mathematical reasoning levels of 7th grade secondary school students. This research
has been conducted during the first semester of the academic year of 2015-2016. We carried out the
study by sampling method with a total of 95 students from the two provinces in the Black Sea region
of Turkey selected by random. The case study, which is one of the qualitative research methods, has
been employed as the method of this research. The obtained data has been analyzed through content
analysis. In order to calculate the content validity of the study, the formula developed by Miles and
Huberman has been used. Two problems developed by Erdem in his doctoral thesis have been used
in this study. The problems applied have been evaluated through using the gradual rating scale of
Marzano. The retrieved findings suggest that it is seen that in the problems given to the students for
solving, a very small part of them has chosen the right strategy for solving the problem. Even though
some of these students have chosen the right strategy, they have not succeeded in the
implementation phase of the strategy. As a result, they were found unable to reach the right
conclusion.
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