摘要：AbstractIn the current study, it was aimed to investigate the misconceptions regarding comparing the decimal numbers. One hundred and eighty-three elementary students (101 female and 82 male) from 6th, 7th, and 8th year of an elementary school in Elmalı (Antalya) constituted the sample group of the study. A one-page Decimal Comparison Test (Moloney & Stacey, 1996) was used for data collection and results were analyzed based on the misconceptions mentioned in the related literature: “whole-number rule”, “fraction rule”, and “zero rule”. Descriptive and inferential statistics were conducted. Post-hoc comparisons using the Tukey HSD test indicated that 6th year students (M= 10.60, SD= 3.54) had significantly less number of misconceptions than 7th year students (M=8.87, SD= 3.03) and 8th year students (M= 8.06, SD=3.32). 7th year students did not differ significantly from 8th year students. According to results of the study, for the whole number misconception, 6th year students had less number of misconceptions compared to others. 7th year students had less number of zero rule misconceptions than the others. On the other hand, for the fraction rule misconception, 7th year and 8th year students had more misconceptions than 6th year students.
