The main goal of STEM education is to provide students with knowledge and skills in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering through interdisciplinary approaches. However, perspective on the nature of STEM approaches and how it should be implemented in the classrooms without losing discipline integrity are still not uncovered and stay as important challenges for both educators and researchers. In this paper, we introduce a theoretical framework that can shed light on how to engage students effectively in STEM education by providing mathematical modeling as a tool for integrating different disciplines. Thus, this framework is for designing, implementing, and evaluating mathematical modeling thinking within an interdisciplinary nature. Furthermore, we provide an example of the interdisciplinary mathematical modeling task with hypothetical student engagement in the process and analyzed the student's thinking with our framework. Although the focus of this paper is mainly about integrating mathematics and science, we believe that our framework can be applied to all STEM disciplines. We conclude that interdisciplinary mathematical modeling framework might be an important tool to overcome some of the challenges that stressed in the literature since it increases the transfer capacity of STEM-focused knowledge and skills to real-world scenarios by presenting problem situations in a real-world context.

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This study aims to identify the factors affectıng students' the mathematıcs success and determine the effect level of the factors via multiple correspondence analysis. The study group is consisted of 460 8th grade students from 2 different cities. The students have taken the survey "Factors Affecting Mathematics Success", developed by the researchers to identify the descriptive characteristics of the students and the maintained data have been compared with the TEOG results of the students via multiple correspondence analysis. The results of the analyses operated by SPSS15.0 package software has shown that the students' success levels have been affected by their fathers' academic background, status of educational support, cultural differences (ethnical roots) and attitudes towards the course and the teachers. Extended Abstract PurposeMathematics is a goal benefited to reveal and direct the personal skills and gain a systematical and rational habit of thinking and an instrument benefited in all human activities.Teaching the mathematics has a vital role in creating an information society and the growth and the future of a country. Mathematics trainings help the society to widen its horizons and thoughts. It brings a new perspective into the society and enables the people to look through from a different view (Aydın, 2003). Although it is so essential, it has been considered one of the complicated and boring courses by the students (Aksu, 1985). Many factors affect this belief. The physical environment, the cognitive level, environmental factors and parental interest the students have are some of these factors. However, if the literature reviewed,

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