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Peer reviewedMovshovitz-Hadar, Nitsa; And Others – Mathematics Teacher, 1987
A lesson in editing was learned from a study of errors made on a national mathematics test in Israel. Analysis indicated that the errors were often caused by careless printing of the test, misleading figures, poor designations, or ambiguous phrasing. (MNS)
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary Education
Peer reviewedMovshovitz-Hadar, Nitsa; And Others – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1987
A content-oriented analysis of written solutions to test items in Israeli high school graduation examinations in mathematics yielded six error categories: misused data; misinterpreted language; logically invalid inference; distorted theorem or definition; unverified solution; and technical error. (Authors/MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Error Patterns, Mathematics Instruction, Research Reports
Movshovitz-Hadar, N.; And Others – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1986
A collection of student distortions, represented by student-invented variations of theorems, are presented. They were drawn from examination papers of 17-year-old students in Israel. (MNS)
Descriptors: Algebra, Concept Formation, Educational Research, Error Patterns
