NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Teachers1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing all 8 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Samet Okumus; Nada Vondrová; Tugrul Kar; Jarmila Robová – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
This study, using a scriptwriting task, examines how 52 Czech pre-service mathematics teachers (PMTs) handled a situation in which a fictional pupil's incorrect reasoning resulted in a correct answer. The participants were asked to imagine and provide a script that reflects how the situation could evolve in response to the pupil's incorrect…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Error Patterns, Mathematical Logic
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yuling Zhuang; AnnaMarie Conner – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2024
This study illustrates how two secondary mathematics teachers used students' incorrect answers as they supported students' engagement in collective argumentation. Three ways of supporting argumentation when students contributed incorrect answers are exemplified, and the structures of these arguments are investigated. Then, by focusing on the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Özel, Zeynep; Isiksal-Bostan, Mine; Tekin-Sitrava, Reyhan – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2022
This qualitative case study aimed to investigate prospective middle school mathematics teachers' instructional responses based on the students' correct and incorrect functional thinking within the context of pattern generalization. The data were collected from thirty-two prospective teachers through a written task and semi-structured interviews…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Responses
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Turner, John J. – School Science Review, 2018
This article endeavours to define how the application of incorrect or wrong solutions to mathematical equations or problems can be used to help stimulate students to perform a critical analysis of the mathematics being applied or the context of the equations used. The context of the application is discussed together with the specific learning…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Lim, Kien H. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2014
Student errors are springboards for analyzing, reasoning, and justifying. The mathematics education community recognizes the value of student errors, noting that "mistakes are seen not as dead ends but rather as potential avenues for learning." To induce specific errors and help students learn, choose tasks that might produce mistakes.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Error Patterns, Error Correction
Chinnappan, Mohan; White, Bruce – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
That the quality of teachers' knowledge has direct impact on students' engagement and learning outcomes in mathematics is now well established. But questions about the nature of this knowledge and how to characterise that knowledge are important for mathematics educators. In the present study, we examine a strand of "Specialised Content…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Error Correction
Mangulabnan, Pauline Anne Therese M. – Online Submission, 2013
This is a descriptive research on the difficulties of Filipino high school students in translating algebraic word problems into mathematical equations. This research is composed of three parts: (1) development of an 11-page "Filipinized" questionnaire; (2) analysis of the mathematical thinking processes of the respondents based on the answers to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Misconceptions, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Formulas
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Star, Jon R.; Foegen, Anne; Larson, Matthew R.; McCallum, William G.; Porath, Jane; Zbiek, Rose Mary; Caronongan, Pia; Furgeson, Joshua,; Keating, Betsy; Lyskawa, Julia – What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
Mastering algebra is important for future math and postsecondary success. Educators will find practical recommendations for how to improve algebra instruction in the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) practice guide, "Teaching Strategies for Improving Algebra Knowledge in Middle and High School Students". The methods and examples included in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary School Mathematics, Teaching Methods