A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers

Students have difficulty in understanding various topics of Mathematics because many of them usually depend on rote memorization of the material that they have learned. This include the mo st basic area of numbers and operations, such as 'operations on integers'. In solving problems involv...

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Main Authors:	Khalid, Madihah, Othman, Joharry, Ibrahim, Mohd Burhan, Embong, Zulmaryan
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin 2018
Subjects:	L Education (General)
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spelling	iium-703292019-10-25T05:03:30Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/70329/ A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers Khalid, Madihah Othman, Joharry Ibrahim, Mohd Burhan Embong, Zulmaryan L Education (General) Students have difficulty in understanding various topics of Mathematics because many of them usually depend on rote memorization of the material that they have learned. This include the mo st basic area of numbers and operations, such as 'operations on integers'. In solving problems involving integers, students usually apply rules that they blindly memorize due to poor conceptual understanding of the topic. This in turn leads to difficulty in applying basic knowledge especially in solving algebraic equations as they progress. The main purpose of this paper is to validate and present the preliminary findings of a paper and pencil test used to diagnose the errors exhibited by Form 1 students in West Malaysia. The errors is then categorized into categories that were documented by other studies from the literature review and unique findings from the Malaysian students. A stratified sample of 622 students from eight different schools (urban and rural), representing four different regions of West Malaysia (North, South East and Middle) were involved in this study. Students were given a diagnostic test consisting of 40 routine problems in operations of integers to uncover the errors and misconception held by some of them. SPSS was used to analyse the data. The result shows that the diagnostic test is a reliable and valid instrument for detection of students’ errors and misconception in operations involving integers. The results also show that despite the simple routine problems, errors and misconceptions were evidently committed by more than 50% the students in certain categories of the test. Most of the errors that students commit involve the ‘addition’ and ‘subtraction’ operation on mixed positive and negative numbers, due to various misunderstanding, or misconception as well as getting confused with the rules being taught in class Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/70329/1/Full%20Prosiding%20MEDC%202018.pdf Khalid, Madihah and Othman, Joharry and Ibrahim, Mohd Burhan and Embong, Zulmaryan (2018) A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers. In: Seminar Kebangsaan Majlis Dekan Pendidikan Universiti Awam [MEDC 2018], 7-8 November 2018, Terengganu. http://journals.iium.edu.my/shajarah/index.php/shaj/article/view/762/356
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spellingShingle	L Education (General) Khalid, Madihah Othman, Joharry Ibrahim, Mohd Burhan Embong, Zulmaryan A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers
description	Students have difficulty in understanding various topics of Mathematics because many of them usually depend on rote memorization of the material that they have learned. This include the mo st basic area of numbers and operations, such as 'operations on integers'. In solving problems involving integers, students usually apply rules that they blindly memorize due to poor conceptual understanding of the topic. This in turn leads to difficulty in applying basic knowledge especially in solving algebraic equations as they progress. The main purpose of this paper is to validate and present the preliminary findings of a paper and pencil test used to diagnose the errors exhibited by Form 1 students in West Malaysia. The errors is then categorized into categories that were documented by other studies from the literature review and unique findings from the Malaysian students. A stratified sample of 622 students from eight different schools (urban and rural), representing four different regions of West Malaysia (North, South East and Middle) were involved in this study. Students were given a diagnostic test consisting of 40 routine problems in operations of integers to uncover the errors and misconception held by some of them. SPSS was used to analyse the data. The result shows that the diagnostic test is a reliable and valid instrument for detection of students’ errors and misconception in operations involving integers. The results also show that despite the simple routine problems, errors and misconceptions were evidently committed by more than 50% the students in certain categories of the test. Most of the errors that students commit involve the ‘addition’ and ‘subtraction’ operation on mixed positive and negative numbers, due to various misunderstanding, or misconception as well as getting confused with the rules being taught in class
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Khalid, Madihah Othman, Joharry Ibrahim, Mohd Burhan Embong, Zulmaryan
author_facet	Khalid, Madihah Othman, Joharry Ibrahim, Mohd Burhan Embong, Zulmaryan
author_sort	Khalid, Madihah
title	A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers
title_short	A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers
title_full	A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers
title_fullStr	A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers
title_full_unstemmed	A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers
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publisher	Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/70329/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/70329/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/70329/1/Full%20Prosiding%20MEDC%202018.pdf
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A preliminary study on form 1 students’ errors and misconception in operations of integers

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