Errors as springboards for remediation of Year 7 students' subtraction knowledge

Shelley Dole; T J Cooper

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Errors as springboards for remediation of Year 7 students' subtraction knowledge

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Errors as springboards for remediation of Year 7 students' subtraction knowledge

Shelley Dole and T J Cooper

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, pp.235-240

Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), 18th (Darwin, Australia, 07-Jul-1995–10-Jul-1995)

Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)

1995

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Curriculum and Pedagogy

Education Systems

Many errors in arithmetical computation are systematic; they are learned and have become habitual. This paper investigates two methods of instruction for correcting systematic errors and promoting knowledge growth for the subtraction algorithm in upper primary students: (1) structured reteaching, linking symbolic procedures to concrete/pictorial representations; and (2) the Old Way/New Way (D/N) technique, based on proactive inhibition. O/N was successful in changing computational knowledge expediently and fairly effortlessly while the conventional approach proved less successful.

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Title: Errors as springboards for remediation of Year 7 students' subtraction knowledge
Authors: Shelley Dole (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
T J Cooper (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Contributors: B Atweh (Editor)
S Flavel (Editor)
Publication details: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, pp.235-240
Conference details: Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA), 18th (Darwin, Australia, 07-Jul-1995–10-Jul-1995)
Publisher: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
Date published: 1995
Copyright note: 1995 Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Inc. Reproduced here with the permission in accordance with the publisher's copyright policy.
Organisation Unit: School of Education - Legacy; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449276502621
Output Type: Conference paper

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