Error Patterns In Computation: Using Error Patterns to Improve Instruction - Softcover

Ashlock, Robert B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131198866 ISBN 13: 9780131198869

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2005

Synopsis

Examines how teachers can make careful analyses of students' work to uncover error patterns and gain knowledge of a student's strengths on which to base future instruction.

About this title

From the Publisher

This text teaches students how to uncover the "wrong" patterns behind the computational errors children make. Through its unique approach, and the generous use of actual students' samples, future teachers not only read about error patterns, they actually encounter them...and learn to correct them. They learn to identify typical error patterns; receive feedback on their diagnosis; and gain an understanding of why a child might have adopted an incorrect procedure.

From the Back Cover

This book is the only one of its kind that instructs teachers to identify typical error patterns, to receive feedback on their diagnosis, and to gain insight regarding why a child may have adopted an incorrect procedure. Revised to link content to the new NCTM Standards, this new edition emphasizes the meaning of operations and using the appropriate method of computation. As in previous editions, it retains its focus on placing paper-and pencil instructional activities within the context of problem solving. Chapter topics cover diagnosing misconceptions and error patterns in computation, providing needed instruction in computation, and helping students who have learned error patterns. For mathematics teachers of special education classes or at the middle school level.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131198866
• ISBN 13: 9780131198869
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274