Abstract:

Integration of science and mathematics as well as with other disciplines is overarching goal of science education. Although its importance, teachers have concerns about mathematical difficulties that their students encountered during their teaching. One of the most common subjects that students have mathematical difficulties was reported as physics.  With this regard, the present study is aimed to investigate 7th grade students’ mathematical errors in a physics unit, specifically force and motion unit. We collected data from 129 7th grade middle school students which were chosen conveniently throughout an open-ended questionnaire. The findings revealed that the students encountered difficulties in ratio and proportion and conversion of units, topics as well as ordering numbers while answering the questions in this unit. Implication for science courses was discussed

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