Using refutational text to address the multiplication makes bigger misconception

 
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Using refutational text to address the multiplication makes bigger misconception (EN)
PROKOPOU, ARGYRO
CHRISTOU, KONSTANTINOS P.
Understanding rational numbers is a source of difficulty with mathematics for students across ages and nationalities. This intervention study focuses on the misconception on the part of the students to think that multiplication makes the operand numbers bigger and division makes them smaller, independently of the numbers involved. In this study, a refutational text was administered to 6th grade students to help them disengage from these misconceptions. Refutational texts directly state the erroneous beliefs and immediately overturn them by presenting the alternative correct ideas in a comprehensive and persuasive way. From the 87 6th grade students that participated in the Pre/Post/Retention-test intervention study, 51 students (experimental group) received the refutational text. The results showed that the refutational text helped the students partly overcome the multiplication makes bigger misconception, and the results had a long-term effect. Not only the high, but also the low prior knowledge students were profited from the intervention. In addition, students managed to transfer the acquired knowledge about multiplication also to division items: the results showed statistically significantly less mistakes of the kind division makes smaller after the intervention. Theoretical and educational implications are discussed. (EN)
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Refutational text, natural number bias, multiplication makes bigger, misconceptions, rational numbers (EN)
University of Patras
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English
2020-01-01
10.26220/une.3210
https://pasithee.library.upatras.gr/ejupUNESCOchair/article/view/3210
Urray (EN)
2241-9152
Educational Journal of the University of Patras UNESCO Chair; Vol. 7, N. 1 (2020) - Week End Jeunes Chercheurs de l’Ass. pour la Rech. en Didact. des Scien. et de la Techn. / France (EL)
Educational Journal of the University of Patras UNESCO Chair; Vol. 7, N. 1 (2020) - Week End Jeunes Chercheurs de l’Ass. pour la Rech. en Didact. des Scien. et de la Techn. / France (EN)
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