Conceptual and Procedural Difficulties in Learningderivative
Date
2019
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Department of Mathematics Education
Abstract
This is case study related to "Conceptual and Procedural difficulties in
Learning Derivative" to explore the difficulties of conceptual understanding and to
explore the difficulties of the procedural understanding of the derivative. The case for
this study was the students of the grade XI. The study site was Makwanpur Multiple
Campus,Makwanpur and 40 students of Grade XI were selected as sample by using
purposive sampling. The data were collected through the CPUBT and interview
guidelines. The total four problems were asked in the CPUBT which was constructed
on the basis of APOS theory. On the basis of test result the three respondents were
selected for the interview and the in-depth interview was conducted. The collected
information through the interview were systematized and analyzed according to
general inductive method.
The findingof this study indicates that students had weak concept to
understand the derivative as a rate of change, unable to understand the clear
geometrical meaning of derivative, unable to make exact sense of limit necessary to
study the derivative, unable to usepower rule to find the derivative. Hence, it can be
concluded that the teacher are focusing only procedural understanding of derivative
and students becomes exam oriented which makes the derivative as one of the
difficult topic. Thus, both teacher and students should focus the conceptual teaching
and learning of derivative and pre knowledge of derivative such that they could easily
understand the concept of derivative. Thus, teacher should change their teaching style
so they can make their classroom very fruitful and learning derivative become a
meaningful which avoids the rote learning.
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Learning, Derivative