Abstract
M.Ed. (Subject Didactics)
Mathematics, which plays a vital role in modern man's working
1ife and which is also of great· importance in his dai ly social
life, raises many problems at the secondary and tertiary
education levels. The question has arisen as to what degree the
teacher's instruction in the junior primary phase is responsible
for spesific problems relating to insight of the four main
operations, considering that mathematical content~ from the
beginning stages, is continuous and inter-related, so that one
insight serves as a prerequisite to the next.
The aim of the study was to form a picture, on a small scale,of
the incidence of specific teaching faults and deficiencies in
the tuition of the four main operations in the junior primary
school phase that inhibit understanding. It is hoped that this
may be of practical benefit for teacher training and the
formulation of related documents, and may also stimulate further
extensive research...