WHY And HOW TO ELIMATING MINSCONCEPTION:
Eliminating mathematic misconceptions is difficult and merely repeating a lesson or extra practice will not help. Telling students were they are mistaken will not work either. Recognizing student misconceptions and immediately focusing a discussion on the misconception is important. Providing guiding questions using inductive reasoning is the best approach. This is supported by Jean Piaget, "the great pioneer of the constructivist theory of knowing."
He believed knowledge development as a process of equilibration using two main concepts in assimilation and accommodation, as belonging not only to biological interactions but also to cognitive ones (shown in Video 1: Piaget Experiment - animated) . Especially Concrete Operational Stage: from ages 7 to 12 (children begin to think logically but a very concrete in their thinking). Children can now conserve and think logically but only with practical aids. They are no longer egocentric.
Video 1: Piaget's Experiment - Animated
The most effective method of eliminating is The Tallest Container Always has the Greatest Volume to address students' concreted activities in which involves hands on - minds in.
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