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Jace'Karmon Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Errors in mathematics are common hurdles for teachers and students; therefore, it is important to learn what errors students make and how students treat them. This study initially identified the types of errors students made while working with algebraic expressions and documented and analyzed the process of students completing an error analysis…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Error Patterns, Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Tests
McCann, Nicholas F. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Researchers and instructors have only recently embraced the role of errors as vehicles for learning in the algebra classroom. Studying a mixture of correct and incorrect worked examples has been shown to be beneficial relative to correct worked examples alone. This study examines the effectiveness of having students generate, or anticipate, errors…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Error Patterns, High School Students
Zielinski, Susan F. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Many students enter high school with persistent algebraic misconceptions that limit their success in mathematics and, by extension, limit potential educational attainment and future earnings. The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a warm conceptual change based intervention on remediating algebraic misconceptions held by…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts
Jacobs, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Adults are prone to treating percents, one representational format of rational numbers, as novel cases of natural number. This suggests that percent values are not differentiated from natural numbers; a conceptual shift from the natural numbers to the rational numbers has not yet occurred. This is most surprising, considering people are inundated…
Descriptors: Numbers, Statistics, Algebra, Problem Solving
Yantz, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The attainment and retention of later algebra skills in high school has been identified as a factor significantly impacting the postsecondary success of students majoring in STEM fields. Researchers maintain that learners develop meaning for algebraic procedures by forming connections to the basic number system properties. The present study…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Algebra, Correlation
Lewis, Virginia Vimpeny – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Number Concepts; Measurement; Geometry; Probability; Statistics; and Patterns, Functions and Algebra. Procedural Errors were further categorized into the following content categories: Computation; Measurement; Statistics; and Patterns, Functions, and Algebra. The results of the analysis showed the main sources of error for 6th, 7th, and 8th…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Concept Formation, Number Concepts, Grade 6
Titus, Freddie – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Fifty percent of college-bound students graduate from high school underprepared for mathematics at the post-secondary level. As a result, thirty-five percent of college students take developmental mathematics courses. What is even more shocking is the high failure rate (ranging from 35 to 42 percent) of students enrolled in developmental…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Educational Strategies, Test Results, Test Items