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Fungirai Mudhefi; Koena Mabotja; Dimakatjo Muthelo – Perspectives in Education, 2024
The 21st-century mathematics classrooms should equip learners with well-grounded knowledge and thinking skills pertaining to geometry. However, Euclidean geometry remains one of the challenging, if not the most difficult topic for many learners. As a result, the purpose of this article is to interpret Grade 12 learners' learning difficulties in…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 12
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Abukari, Moses Abdullai; Marifa, Huaru Alhassan; Samari, Jonathan Ayelsoma; Dorsah, Philip; Abudu, Fatao – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2022
The concept of hybridisation is one of the most difficult concepts for chemistry students to grasp at all levels of learning. Research showed the students conceptual difficulty ranged from their lack of the prerequisite knowledge for grasping the topic hybridisation to chemical bond formation and orientations of atomic orbitals. This study…
Descriptors: High School Students, Difficulty Level, Student Attitudes, Science Achievement
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Zhou, Shaona; Wang, Yanlin; Zhang, Chunbin – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
There is widespread agreement that science learning always builds upon students' existing ideas and that science teachers should possess knowledge of learners. This study aims at investigating pre-service science teachers' knowledge of student misconceptions and difficulties, a crucial component of PCK, on Newton's Third Law. A questionnaire was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Level
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Memnun, Dilek Sezgin; Aydin, Bünyamin; Dinç, Emre; Çoban, Merve; Sevindik, Fatma – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
In this research study, it was aimed to examine failures and inabilities of eleventh grade students about quadratic equations and functions. For this purpose, these students were asked ten open-ended questions. The analysis of the answers given by the students to these questions indicated that a significant part of these students had failures and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Equations (Mathematics), Failure, Academic Ability