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Tzu-Hsing Lin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Integers present a global challenge for students due to their abstract nature and complex operations. To delve into the challenge students encountered, error analysis served as an alternative method to investigate errors diagnostically. This study aimed to explore error patterns related to integer addition and subtraction among seventh-grade…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities, Error Patterns, Grade 7
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Mulungye, Mary M.; O'Connor, Miheso; Ndethiu, S. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This paper is based on a study which sought to examine the various errors and misconceptions committed by students in algebra with the view to exposing the nature and origin of the errors and misconceptions in secondary schools in Machakos district. Teachers' knowledge on students' errors was investigated together with strategies for remedial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Misconceptions, Algebra
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Cho, Peter; Nagle, Courtney – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
This study extends past research on students' understanding of slope by analyzing college students' mistakes on routine tasks involving slope. We conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of students' mistakes to extract information regarding slope conceptualizations described in prior research. Results delineate procedural proficiencies and…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, College Students, Error Correction, Error Patterns
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Gökkurt, Burçin; Erdem, Emrullah; Basibüyük, Kani; Sahin, Ömer; Soylu, Yasin – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
The aim of this study was to examine the mistakes made by freshman students of science teaching during the process of proving and the reasons for these mistakes. To this aim, the study, which was conducted via the case study method, was performed with 52 freshman students who were studying at the department of science teaching in a state…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Error Patterns, College Freshmen, Case Studies
Ioannou, Marios – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
Proving that a given set is indeed a subgroup, one needs to show that it is non-empty, and closed under operation and inverses. This study focuses on the first condition, analysing students' responses to this task. Results suggest that there are three distinct problematic responses: the total absence of proving this condition, the problematic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Student Reaction