Research Article

Effects of MATAS Hopscotch Technique in the Teaching of Fractions and Error Patterns Made by Year 5 Pupils

Table 6

Distribution of errors in the subtraction of fractions made by the control group and treatment group in the posttest.

Types
of errors
Posttest
Control groupTreatment group
Average abilityLow abilityTotalAverage abilityLow abilityTotal

Concept errors7 (25%)7 (25%)
Directions errors4 (14.3%)8 (28.6%)12 (42.9%)
Application errors
Careless errors13 (46.4%)9 (32.1%)22 (78.6%)7 (25%)15 (53.6%)22 (78.6%)
No errors3 (10.7%)3 (10.7%)6 (21.4%)