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Download full textGanesan, Raman; Dindyal, Jaguthsing – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
In this study we set out to investigate the errors made by students in logarithms. A test with 16 items was administered to 89 Secondary three students (Year 9). The errors made by the students were categorized using four categories from a framework by Movshovitz-Hadar, Zaslavsky, and Inbar (1987). It was found that students in the top third were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students, Grade 8
Peer reviewedOlson, Jo Clay; Cangelosi, Richard; Madrid, Silvia; Cooper, Sandra; Hartter, Beverly – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2011
The goal of this study was to understand errors that student make when simplifying exponential expressions. College students enrolled in four college mathematics courses were asked to simplify and compare such expressions. Quantitative analysis identified three persistent errors: interpreting negative bases, negative exponents, and parentheses.…
Descriptors: College Students, College Mathematics, Mathematics Skills, Error Patterns
Romberg, Thomas A., Ed. – 1981
This document contains 15 research papers presented at the Fourth and Fifth Annual Conferences of the Research Council for Diagnostic and Prescriptive Mathematics. The papers are organized into four sections. In part I, four position papers by Romberg, Engelhardt, Ashlock, and Heddens reflect research ideas which underlie the Council. Part II…
Descriptors: Computation, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Research, Error Patterns
