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Hu, Qintong; Son, Ji-Won; Hodge, Lynn – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
To improve students' mathematics achievement, their errors should be treated as an opportunity to stimulate conceptual and procedural understanding. Using a teaching scenario, this study investigated 40 high school teachers' analyses of and responses to a student error(s) in solving a quadratic equation by using the factoring method. The teachers'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, High School Teachers, High School Students, Secondary School Mathematics
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Hu, Qintong; Son, Ji-Won; Hodge, Lynn – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
To improve mathematics achievement, students' errors should be treated as a source to stimulate their understanding of the conceptual and procedural basis of their errors. The study investigated 20 Chinese and 20 U.S. high school teachers' interpretations and responses to a student's errors in solving a quadratic equation. The teachers' responses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Mathematical Concepts