Error Patterns in Computation, 9/e (Paperback)

Description:

For courses in teaching mathematics in education or special education at the elementary or middle school level.

This is the only supplemental text of its kind that instructs teachers how to identify typical error patterns, to receive feedback on their diagnosis, and to gain insight regarding why a child may have adopted an incorrect mathematics procedure. Revised to link content to the new NCTM Standards, this new edition emphasizes the meaning of operations and an 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.

Table of Contents:

PART I  DIAGNOSIS AND INSTRUCTION

Chapter 1  Number and Operations: Computation

Chapter 2  Diagnosing Misconceptions and Error Patterns in Computation

Chapter 3  Providing Data-Driven Instruction in Computation

PART II  HELPING STUDENTS WHO HAVE LEARNED ERROR PATTERNS

Chapter 4  Whole Numbers: Addition and Subtraction

Chapter 5  Whole Numbers: Multiplication and Division

Chapter 6  Fractions and Decimals: Concepts and Equivalence

Chapter 7  Fractions and Decimals: Addition and Subtraction

Chapter 8  Fractions and Decimals: Multiplication and Division

Chapter 9  Percent and Proportion

Chapter 10  Geometry and Measurement

Chapter 11 Integers

Chapter 12  Algebra

Glossary

Selected Resources

Appendices