TOH Tin Lam, TAY Eng Guan, and TONG Cherng Luen
National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Published in The Mathematician Educator, 2021, Vol 2, No. 1, pp 1-10.
Abstract
In this paper, several fallacies about the extension of the formula <<insert maths formula>> to the erroneous formula <<insert maths formula>> are discussed. In a Commognitive Theory Framework, misconceptions by ‘newcomers’ can be traced to the use of the word “unit”.