Teaching mathematics is often defined by a rigid curriculum where each topic or
concept is given a particular time span. Teachers feel compelled to teach the skills required
by the curriculum and find it difficult to explore each concept thoroughly and acknowledge
student’s misconceptions and prior knowledge. The use of Concept Cartoons would address
this issue as they aim to elicit prior mathematical knowledge from the students. The use of
Concept Cartoons within the mathematics classroom is expected to engage students in
discussing their prior knowledge and encourage them to challenge their existing beliefs, thus
enabling misconceptions to be elicited and addressed.