- Title
- Incomplete or incorrect understanding of decimals: An important deficit for student nurses
- Creator
- Pierce, Robyn; Steinle, Vicki
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/38075
- Identifier
- vital:1542
- Identifier
- https://www.emis.de/proceedings/PME30/5/161.pdf
- Abstract
- In this study more than 40% of the 355 student nurses who completed a pre-test, involving comparisons of decimal numbers, made errors that indicate an incomplete or incorrect conceptual understanding. This includes students who are sometimes able to achieve 100% on drug calculations tests. Seven test items with error rates of between 10% and 26% form the focus of our discussion. A sub-group of the students attended a one-hour remedial intervention using various physical materials to give conceptual meaning to decimal numbers. A matched post-test three months after the intervention, detected a statistically significant improvement for the intervention students but not for those who only practiced drug calculation procedures. Conceptual teaching for number sense is needed to underpin procedures.; E1
- Publisher
- Prague, Czech Republic : Charles University
- Relation
- Paper presented at the 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME30, Mathematics in the Centre, Prague, Czech Republic : 16th - 21st July, 2006 p. 161-169
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- Copyright Unknown
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Nursing; Students; Learning
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