The Analysis of Teacher Views on 7th Grade Students’ Misconceptions

In this article, misconceptions that might be possibly made by seventh grade students on polygons and particular quadrilaterals were evaluated by the teachers and solution suggestions were sought for. For the research, teachers worked in 2013-2014 academic year were selected. When determining the study group, maximum diversity sampling was chosen instead of purposive sampling methods. Content analysis was carried out by using qualitative data in order to determine the teachers’ opinions. According to the results received; it was found out that the students were generally depended on prototype figures, and this stemmed from the examples of same type given during the lesson. Moreover, it was indicated by the teachers that particular quadrilaterals were limited to their names only, and that they could not become any other figure in terms of their characteristics. In order to remove the misconceptions, teachers suggested the execution of hierarchical teaching method during the lesson