On the other hand, looking at the new mathematics curriculum depending on students’ responses, most of the students seem to be satisfied with new one compared to the existing one. The reform in the mathematics curriculum has brought rise to many chances in classroom environment as understood from the students’ responses. These changes are realized by students and they reflect their views through the pictures, and writings. Student-3 and student-42 explicitly
mentioned about the entrance to new system. Similarly, students-23 said that “this year, mathematics course is funny. Our teacher has changed his teaching style”. In the new system, as perceived by students, the teacher is not active, as he was before, any more. The teacher acts as facilitator, and motivates the students toward mathematics. The active role of teacher in existing curriculum is given to the students. The students are undertaken to the role of researcher, active thinker and interpreter as well. The students are aware of this situation and they seem to be as active as possible. Tothem, being encouraged by teachers and being active in classroom makes them interact with teachers and their peers, share their knowledge with others and participate voluntarily in the classroom activities. In this way, they seem to become aware of their skills and capacities. Further, starts to share their knowledge, experiences and their research findings in front of classroom (see Figure
2).