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KA201 - Strategic Partnerships for School Education
The Universal Language of Mathematics (2018-1-TR01-KA201-059704)

To grasp some insight about differences between refugee and Turkish students’ lifestyles, students were
asked for their favorite animal and color. The results are summarized in Table-18 and Table-19,
respectively. For Turkish boys and girls, three of top four favorite animals (cat, dog and bird) are in
common. While Turkish girls prefer rabbit, boys grade lion among the top four favorite animals. For
refugee boys and girls, two of top four animals (cat and bird) are in common. Refugee girls like rabbit
and butterfly. On the other hand, refugee boys prefer lion and dog.

Refugee Students Turkish Students

Girls Boys Girls Boys
Cat 39% Lion 27% Cat 37% Dog 36%

Rabbit 22% Cat 25% Dog 20% Lion 13%
Favorite animal
Bird 8% Dog 12% Rabbit 18% Cat 11%
Butterfly 7% Bird 6% Bird 6% Bird 7%
Table – 18: The favorite animal of students.
(Note: Table presents the top four animals with percentages.)

The favorite animal choice of refugee and Turkish boys are identical even though their percentages are
different (Table-18). However; out of four, one favorite animal is different between refugee and Turkish
girls. Like refugee and Turkish boys, Turkish girls prefer dog. But refugee girls replace dog with butterfly
which is not among the top four favorite animals of refugee boys, Turkish girls, and Turkish boys.

The case of favorite color (Table-19) is more complicated but indicates interesting facts and important
distinction among nationality and sex. Generally speaking, red color which is associated with blood is
not an advocated color for RS. However, for refugee students, red is the most favorite color and it has
unisex structure (Table-19). The top preference of almost one third of both refugee boy and refugee
girl is red. Similar to RS, the most favorite color of Turkish boys and girls are same; it is blue.

Refugee Students Turkish Students
Girls Boys Girls Boys

Red 31% Red 31% Blue 24% Blue 29%
Black 14% Blue 19% Black 22% Red 22%
Green 12% Green 17% Purple 18% Black 15%
Favorite color Yellow 11% Black 10% Red 13% Yellow 14%

Pink 11% Yellow %7 Pink 8% Green 9%
Blue 8% Purple %1 Green 6% Purple 1%
Purple 3% Pink 0 Yellow 4% Pink 0
Table – 19: The favorite color of students.
(Note: Table presents the top seven colors with percentages.)

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