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Üzel, Devrim – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study reports errors and misconceptions about division operation in fractions made by eighth-grade students. To investigate these errors and misconceptions, the study examined students' understanding of division operation in fractions using a questionnaire and expectation table. Students' misconceptions were determined for each question and…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Fractions, Generalization, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Bal, Ayten Pinar – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine the semantic structures used by mathematics teacher candidates to transform algebraic expressions into verbal problems. The research is a descriptive study in the survey model, which is one of the quantitative research types. The study group of the research consists of 165 teacher candidates studying in the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Preservice Teachers, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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Aydogdu Iskenderoglu, Tuba – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
It is important for pre-service teachers to know the conceptual difficulties they have experienced regarding the concepts of multiplication and division in fractions and problem posing is a way to learn these conceptual difficulties. Problem posing is a synthetic activity that fundamentally has multiple answers. The purpose of this study is to…
Descriptors: Fractions, Multiplication, Word Problems (Mathematics), Elementary School Mathematics