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An investigation of students’ errors in logarithms
Citation
Ganesan, R., & Jaguthsing Dindyal. (2014). Examples in the teaching of mathematics: Teachers’ perceptions. In J. Anderson, M. Cavanagh & A. Prescott (Eds.), Curriculum in focus: Research guided practice - Proceedings of the 37th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (p. 231–238). Sydney: MERGA
Author
Ganesan, Raman
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Dindyal, Jaguthsing
Abstract
In this study we set out to investigate the errors made by students in logarithms. A test with 16 items was administered to 89 Secondary three students (Year 9). The errors made by the students were categorized using four categories from a framework by Movshovitz-Hadar, Zaslavsky, and Inbar (1987). It was found that students in the top third were less likely to make ‘distorted theorem or definition’ type of errors whereas they were more likely to make errors in the other three categories.
Date Issued
2014
Description
This paper was presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Incorporated (MERGA 2014) on “Curriculum in Focus: Research Guided Practice” held in Sydney, Australia from 29 Jun to 3 Jul 2014