Mistakes And Misconceptions Of 9th Class Students Regarding To Natural Numbers

Mistakes and misconceptions regarding to natural numbers of 9th class students and whether these mistakes and misconceptions demonstrated any significant difference depending on the gender has been investigated in this study. This study was carried out with 321 students at 9th class who have being educated in Anatolian High Schools located in Istanbul City Şişli Province in the education training year of 2011-2012. The Diagnosis Test was used as a data collection instrument. Qualitative and quantitative researching methods were utilized in this study. At the end of the investigation, it has been determined that students had a lot of mistakes and misconceptions regarding to natural number. Also these mistakes and misconceptions were determined as not demonstrating a significant difference depending on the genders.