Gifted students' number sense skills in terms of number sense components

As a descriptive survey research, this study aimed to investigate the number
sense skills of gifted in terms of number sense components. Participant of
this research consisted of 123 gifted secondary school students, who were
selected according to the convenience sampling method in Turkey. The data
of this research were collected in the 2021-2022 academic year. The number
sense test was used as the data collection tool. This test is comprised of 20
items which were prepared in line with five basic number sense components.
The data obtained from the data collection tool were analysed by
quantitative analysis methods. As a result of the analysis, it was confirmed
that the number senses of gifted secondary school students differed
according to gender and this difference was in favour of the male students.
The highest number sense performance according to grade levels belonged
to eight grade level students. Furthermore, it was observed that the number
sense performance increased in parallel with the grade levels of the students.
In addition, when the mean of correct answers for the number sense
components was considered, it was concluded that the highest mean was in
the understanding of the effect of the operation and the lowest mean was in
the understanding of the number concept, respectively.