- Title
- “As soon as the four sides are all equal, then the angles must be 90° each”: children's misconceptions in geometry
- Creator
- Atebe, Humphrey U
- Creator
- Schäfer, Marc
- Date Issued
- 2013
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/140983
- Identifier
- vital:37934
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1080/10288457.2008.10740634
- Description
- This study describes Nigerian and South African students' conceptual understanding in high school geometry based on the van Hiele model of geometric thinking levels. The study further highlights students' misconceptions in school geometry. Concepts of triangles and quadrilaterals were investigated among 36 mathematics learners drawn from grades 10 through 12 who participated in this study. The tasks included identifying and naming shapes, sorting of shapes, stating the properties of shapes, defining of shapes and establishing class inclusions of shapes. The results indicated that many Nigerian and South African high school learners in Grade 10, 11 and 12 hold a number of misconceptions about geometric concepts of triangles and quadrilaterals.
- Format
- 19 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education
- Relation
- Atebe, H.U. and Schäfer, M., 2008. “As soon as the four sides are all equal, then the angles must be 90° each”. Children's misconceptions in geometry. African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 12(2), pp.47-65.
- Relation
- African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education volume 12 number 2 47 65 2008 1811-7295
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Taylor and Francis Open Access Statement (https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess)
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