“…Teachers' thoughts about mathematics have an important influence on their interaction with children, their teaching, and their decision making when teaching curricula (Evans, 2003). Teachers' attitudes toward mathematics also affect their teaching of mathematics (Ma, 1997;Gellert, 1999;Lee, 2005;Brown, 2005;Brown et al, 2008;Sweeting, 2011). Moreover, it is thought that teachers' negative attitudes towards mathematics affects children's attitudes towards mathematics (Bush, 1989;Bursal & Paznokas, 2006;Malinsky, Ross, Pannells, & McJunkin, 2006;Peker & Mirasyedioğlu, 2008;Gresham, 2008;Peker, 2009).…”