Diagnosing students’ difficulties in learning mathematics: the case of binary operation
The aim of this study is to diagnose students’ difficulties in learning binary operation and its properties. A test consisting of 16 open-ended questions is applied to 74 students studying in the Department of primary school education of Agri Education Faculty at Ataturk University, Turkey. In ad...
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Penerbit ukm
2006
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1824/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1824/ |
| Summary: | The aim of this study is to diagnose students’ difficulties in learning binary operation and its
properties. A test consisting of 16 open-ended questions is applied to 74 students studying in
the Department of primary school education of Agri Education Faculty at Ataturk University,
Turkey. In addition to this, a semi-structured interview is applied to fifteen students to
understand their learning difficulties clearly. The results indicate that the distributive and
associative properties of binary operations have not been learned in the conceptual level and
so students have more difficulty in these properties. It is also found that students have more
difficulties in operations with the rules than those with the table |
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