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Direct linkAyhan Kursat Erbas; Mehmet Fatih Ocal – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
The purpose of this study was twofold. First, to explore middle and high school students' intuitively-based (mis)conceptions in probability, particularly availability and representativeness heuristics. Second, to investigate teachers' awareness of these intuitively-based (mis)conceptions and the effectiveness of their instructional practices to…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Heuristics, Middle School Students, High School Students
Lem, Stephanie; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Learning and Instruction, 2013
Box plots are frequently used, but are often misinterpreted by students. Especially the area of the box in box plots is often misinterpreted as representing number or proportion of observations, while it actually represents their density. In a first study, reaction time evidence was used to test whether heuristic reasoning underlies this…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Reaction Time, Misconceptions, Intervention
Download full textZucker, Andrew A.; Esty, Edward T. – 1993
"Becoming Successful Problem Solvers" is a 12-episode video series designed for use with middle school students. The materials are intended to create new assessment tools for teachers, to develop instructional devices that are useful in promoting problem solving in middle school classrooms, and to promote classroom discourse about…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Communication, Educational Technology, Educational Television
