Difficulties of 6th Grade Elementary School Students in Solving the Four Basic Fundamental Operations: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of Natural Numbers
- 1 Department of Methods and Teaching Techniques, State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG), Parana, Brazil
- 2 Department of Mathematics, State University of Western Paraná, Cascavel, Brazil
- 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG), Parana, Brazil
Abstract
The results of this study point out the contributions of the theory of Conceptual Fields to identify the nature of the mistakes made by students of the 6th year of elementary school in solving mathematical questions with ten natural numbers. We ask: What are the concepts and theorems put into action to carry out the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with natural numbers? The concepts and theorems in action related to the understanding of the decimal numbering system structure are responsible for the errors? The mistakes are due to the understanding of the organization of representation registers (word and Arabic notation)? As a result, we find that students have the addition of errors and subtraction errors by misunderstanding of the structure of the Numbering Decimal Positional System, errors due to lack of meaning assignment to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and also the numbers of Arabic script which induce errors in the handling of algorithms.
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