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Peer reviewedBrumfield, Robert D.; Moore, Bobby D. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1985
Fourth-grade students in Title I mathematics took 40-problem tests to determine types of persistent errors made in addition and subtraction. Tests, administered to 117 students (addition) and 104 students (subtraction), were analyzed for basic fact, random, or procedural errors. Findings are reported and discussed, and recommendations for…
Descriptors: Addition, Comprehension, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns
Download full textWoodward, John; Gersten, Russell – 1992
This report describes TORUS, a computer-based program for elementary school students with learning disabilities which analyzes student work samples in addition and subtraction and provides individual profiles of student misconceptions and weaknesses. Initially, work samples from 236 middle school students with learning disabilities were analyzed…
Descriptors: Addition, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software, Construct Validity
Peer reviewedPellegrino, James W.; Goldman, Susan R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1987
An overview is presented of information processing analyses of knowledge and performance in three areas of the elementary mathematics curriculum: basic addition and subtraction facts, complex procedures such as multicolumn subtraction, and the solution of word problems. Theories of the knowledge associated with "expert" performance are discussed.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Addition, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
