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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
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Son, Ji-Won – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2013
Interpreting and responding to student thinking are central tasks of reform-minded mathematics teaching. This study examined preservice teachers' (PSTs) interpretations of and responses to a student's error(s) involving finding a missing length in similar rectangles through a teaching scenario task. Fifty-seven PSTs' responses were…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Error Patterns