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Area and perimeter calculations by education majors
Adnan S Abed1, Haitham M Alkhateeb
1Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. abed@squ.edu.om
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|March 9, 2004
Abstract:
71 undergraduate majors in elementary education were given a task to assess their understanding of perimeter and area. Examination of responses indicated students' understanding of perimeter and area is very formula-based and their misunderstandings are often based on applying area calculation strategies to a perimeter calculation problem.