Identifying the secondary school students' misconceptions about number

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R.F. Jabal, R. Rosjanuardi

2019 Journal of Physics: Conference Series Vol. 1157 Issue 4 Conference paper Cited by 8 SDG 4 Quartile

Abstract

This study aims to identify students' misconceptions about the conception of number and its operation, especially whole number and fractions. Data was collected 31 students of 7th grade with knowledge test as much as 6 items. To further identify the students' misconceptions that occurred in questions then researchers execute the interview from several students. Generally, the result of this study found that many students experience errors in the operation of whole number and fractions. In addition, students' errors are also obtained in order to process the workings of whole number and fractions as well as change the fraction to decimals or percent. From the errors described above and based on the result of interview found the misconception that occurs in the students' concept about negative number, fractions, and sorting in working the operation of whole number and fractions. © 2018 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Program Studi Pendidikan Matematika, Sekolah Pascasarjana Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung, 40154, Indonesia; Departemen Pendidikan Matematika, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi No. 229, Bandung, 40154, Indonesia

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