Volume : IV, Issue : V, May - 2015

ERRORS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TOOL TO ENHANCE STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY KNOWLEDGE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Mrs. R. D. Padmavathy

Abstract :

 Errors are not the incorrect answer they are natural process of students understanding in any learning and a  valuable tool for both teachers and students to analyse them. The present study aims to show the different types of  common errors and learning difficulties committed by class IX students while solving statistics and probability. A standardized mathematics  diagnostic cum achievement test constructed by the investigator was used for identifying the common errors and understand the learning  difficulties. In the present study descriptive survey research method was mainly adopted to collect data from 900 class nine students from  Puducherry. Findings of the research reported the student’s errors, difficulties, misconceptions in understanding the concepts and need of the  curricular design and statistical training for enhancing the interest in the field statistics and probability

Keywords :

Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijsr  

Cite This Article:

Mrs. R.D.PADMAVATHY ERRORS AS AN OPPORTUNITY TOOL TO ENHANCE STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY KNOWLEDGE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 4, Issue : 5 May 2015

Number of Downloads : 799

References :