scholarly journals COUNTEREXAMPLES: CHALLENGES FACED BY ELEMENTARY STUDENTS WHEN TESTING A CONJECTURE ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERIMETER AND AREA

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 487-506
Author(s):  
Wanty Widjaja ◽  
Colleen Vale
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Elementary Students ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
School Students ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Written Responses ◽  
Common Misconception ◽  
Area And Perimeter ◽  
The Relationship

One pedagogical approach to challenge a persistent misconception is to get students to test a conjecture whereby they are confronted with the misconception. A common misconception about a ‘direct linear relationship’ between area and perimeter is well-documented. In this study, Year 4-6 students were presented with a conjecture that a rectangle with a larger perimeter will always have a larger area. Eighty-two (82) students’ written responses from three elementary schools in Victoria, Australia were analyzed. The findings revealed that Year 4-6 students could find multiple examples to support the conjecture but they struggled to find counterexamples to refute the conjecture. The findings underscored the importance of developing elementary school students’ capacity to construct counterexamples and recognize that it is sufficient to offer one counterexample in refuting a conjecture about all cases. Implications for ­teaching practice to support investigating and testing a conjecture are discussed.

scholarly journals Students’ Commitment to National Heritage, Patriotism and Nationalism (The Case of Indonesian Elementary Students in Border Area with East Timor)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Hendrowibowo ◽  
Yohanes Harsoyo ◽  
Sunarso Sunarso
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Elementary Students ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
East Timor ◽  
School Students ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Border Areas ◽  
High Level ◽  
Very High

This study aims to describe the commitment to national heritage, patriotism, nationalism of elementary school students in the border areas between Indonesia and Timor Leste. This research was conducted in three elementary schools, they are SD Inpres Moto Ain, SD Inpres Class Jau Halimuti, SD Kristen Nanaeklot, and SD Negeri Motabenar from June to August 2018. The subjects of this study were elementary students in the Indonesia-Timor Leste border areas precisely around Motaain City, Belu Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. The research questionnaire was adapted from Karazawa and analyzed with descripriptive statistics. The results of this study showed that the commitment to national heritage, patriotism, and nationalism of elementary students on the Indonesian border areas with Timor Leste is in the very high level.

scholarly journals Game-Based Multimedia for Horizontal Numeracy Learning

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (15) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Dedi Rohendi
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
School Students ◽  
Multimedia Development ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Grade 3 ◽  
Difficult Subject

Recently, game-based multimedia development has been increasing rapidly. Game-based multimedia is not only used for entertaining but also for teaching and learning process. Meanwhile, for the majority of elementary school students, numeracy learning is still considered as a difficult subject to be learned and has not attracted students’ interest because it still uses vertical methods. The objective of this research is to examine the implementation of game-based multimedia in learning horizontal numeracy. In this game-based multimedia, horizontal numeracy material is presented in the form of a game. Horizontal numeracy material begins with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Game-based multimedia is implemented to 20 students in grade 3 elementary schools in Bandung, Indonesia. Subsequently, the way students learn the materials and their learning outcomes are explored after using this multimedia. The results show that the students can learn horizontal numeracy excitingly; moreover, they can easily understand the concept of horizontal numeracy quickly. It is indicated by by the increasing of average post-test value.

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