The New Mathematics Curriculum
The changes from the old to the new mathematics curriculum are summarized in Figure 2 (MEB,
2004). These changes are related to the content, delivery, and assessment aspects of the new
curriculum. It seems that the newly developed Turkish primary mathematics curriculum adopted
a mixed model while emphasizing the subject centred model in the content development and
learner centred models in the pedagogies and assessment techniques. In this respect, this can be
considered a deep change in terms of both content and pedagogies but not in the way the content
is developed. The content seems to be developed based on a subject centred approach.