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Download full textTšhegofatšo Phuti Makgakga – Online Submission, 2023
This article provides insights into Grade 11 learner understanding of the roots of quadratic equations, how learners used solution strategies to find equations with given roots, how they determine the unknown values and the other root when one root is given and how they determine the unknown values when two roots of the equation are given. The…
Descriptors: Grade 11, High School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Karama, Muneer Jebreel – Online Submission, 2021
The aim of this research was to study and investigate first year university calculus students' misconceptions about how to use the definition of limit to find the first derivative of functions and then remediate these misconceptions by using APOS theory (Action, Process, Object, and Schema). Students (n = 82 female and male) were selected based on…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Mathematics, Calculus, Student Attitudes
Tumová, Veronika; Vondrová, Nada – Online Submission, 2017
Measurement in geometry is one of the key areas of school mathematics, however, pupils make serious mistakes when solving problems involving measurement and hold misconceptions. This article focuses on the possible links between lower secondary pupils' (n = 870) success in solving non-measurement tasks and calculations tasks on area and volume and…
Descriptors: Measurement, Geometry, Problem Solving, Computation
Trance, Naci John C. – Online Submission, 2013
This paper presents another effort in determining the difficulty of engineering students in terms of solving word problems. Students were presented with word problems in algebra. Then, they were asked to solve the word problems orally; that is, before they presented their written solutions, they were required to explain how they understood the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Students, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
Kaplan, Abdullah; Ozturk, Mesut; Ocal, Mehmet Fatih – Online Submission, 2015
The purpose of this study is to determine students' learning levels in derivative subjects and their misconceptions. In addition, this study aims to compared to the effects of the computer based instruction and traditional instruction in resolving these misconceptions. For this purpose, 12th grade 70 students were chosen from high schools in Agri…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Computer Assisted Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction
Mangulabnan, Pauline Anne Therese M. – Online Submission, 2013
This is a descriptive research on the difficulties of Filipino high school students in translating algebraic word problems into mathematical equations. This research is composed of three parts: (1) development of an 11-page "Filipinized" questionnaire; (2) analysis of the mathematical thinking processes of the respondents based on the answers to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Misconceptions, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Formulas
Akerson, Valarie, Ed.; Shelley, Mack, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Social and Education Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES)-www.iconses.net which took place on October 21-24, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Experiential Learning, Skill Development, Teaching Methods
Cenk Kesan; Deniz Kaya – Online Submission, 2007
In order to think, to interpret and judge correctly, the humans have to comprehend what they have learned. Concepts are the abstract representatives of the classifications that are formed by objects, events, ideas and behaviors which have common specifications. (Fidan, N., 1985). Concepts reduce the complexity by simplifying the environment that…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Scientific Concepts, Misconceptions, Teaching Methods
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends
