Investigating the Ideas of High School Students over Matter
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0375.2013v34n2p237Keywords:
Teaching chemistry, matter, high school studentsAbstract
In the teaching of chemistry, the concept of matter is essential for students to understand later, the chemical transformations that occurring between different materials. This paper presents the results of a study conducted with 180 students in the first year of high school, a private school located in the city of Santo André, in São Paulo. In this study we attempted to identify what are the students' ideas on the matter. It was found that few students relate the term to the idea of particle matter. Most students, when they think in terms of chemistry, the matter relates only to their macroscopic characteristics.
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