Teachers’ views
As clear from the background information of the teachers, they had long experiences in classroom teaching profession. Their experiences ranged 17 years to 28 years.
Teachers participated in this study believed the importance of the change in the previous math curriculum. They thought that the basic reasons underlying the curriculum reform and/or change in mathematics curriculum were abstractness and hardness of the topics (subjects in previous curriculum) to students’ development level. They also reported that students did not understand why to learn what were covered, because these topics had been covered without their real life implications. There reasons why the reform in curriculum was required were abstractness and hardness of the topics, and the lack of real life implementations. They believed that the changes in the curriculum provided students with opportunities to learn the topics by doing and living. They indicate that new curriculum provides the students with plenty of practice in their studies. In addition, new curriculum contributes the students to understand the importance of subjects taught in classroom and to relate them with real life.For the sake of comparison, the teachers were asked to mention about the distinct differences between previous and new curricula based on the aspects of teacher and student roles, interaction, course content, method and techniques, knowledge acquisition process, objectives, and evaluation process. Teachers’ responses are summarized in table 1. They reported that teachers in the existing curriculum were active and informationgiver, and had more work load while they have started to act as facilitator and guide in implementing new