Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers
This research investigated students’ sources and causes of errors and misconception in solving routine problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integers. This qualitative study involved observation of eight Year 7 classes and interviews with the respective classroom...
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| description | This research investigated students’ sources and causes of errors and misconception in solving routine problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integers. This qualitative study involved observation of eight Year 7 classes and interviews with the respective classroom teachers. Sixteen Year 7 students who exhibit errors when solving the problems given in the Error Identification Integer Test (EIIT) were also interviewed to probe their thinking. The different types of errors were categorized according to how they were construed. The sources of errors were found to stem from carelessness, poor basic knowledge such as the inability to multiply and divide even the whole numbers, inability to assimilate concepts of integers since they are used to the schema of whole numbers, and rule mix-up which is also the result of surface understanding. Teachers were questioned about common errors and possible reasons for these errors made by their students. The main cause of errors and misconceptions is superficial understanding, which was most probably due to teachers rushing to complete the extensive syllabus, and consequently, students resorted to memorizing rules because of surface understanding. Teaching episodes were found to lack multiple-representation, creativity, as well as cooperative learning and active learning. |
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| spelling | iium-758482020-11-11T07:51:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/75848/ Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers Khalid, Madihah Embong, Zulmaryan L Education (General) This research investigated students’ sources and causes of errors and misconception in solving routine problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integers. This qualitative study involved observation of eight Year 7 classes and interviews with the respective classroom teachers. Sixteen Year 7 students who exhibit errors when solving the problems given in the Error Identification Integer Test (EIIT) were also interviewed to probe their thinking. The different types of errors were categorized according to how they were construed. The sources of errors were found to stem from carelessness, poor basic knowledge such as the inability to multiply and divide even the whole numbers, inability to assimilate concepts of integers since they are used to the schema of whole numbers, and rule mix-up which is also the result of surface understanding. Teachers were questioned about common errors and possible reasons for these errors made by their students. The main cause of errors and misconceptions is superficial understanding, which was most probably due to teachers rushing to complete the extensive syllabus, and consequently, students resorted to memorizing rules because of surface understanding. Teaching episodes were found to lack multiple-representation, creativity, as well as cooperative learning and active learning. Gokkusagi Ltd. Sti. 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/75848/7/75848_Sources%20and%20possible%20causes%20of%20errors%20and%20misconceptions%20in%20operations%20of%20integers.pdf Khalid, Madihah and Embong, Zulmaryan (2020) Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 15 (2). pp. 1-13. E-ISSN 1306-3030 https://www.iejme.com/article/sources-and-possible-causes-of-errors-and-misconceptions-in-operations-of-integers-6265 10.29333/iejme/6265 |
| spellingShingle | L Education (General) Khalid, Madihah Embong, Zulmaryan Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers |
| title | Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers |
| title_full | Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers |
| title_fullStr | Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers |
| title_short | Sources and Possible Causes of Errors and Misconceptions in Operations of Integers |
| title_sort | sources and possible causes of errors and misconceptions in operations of integers |
| topic | L Education (General) |
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