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Developing good responses to students' errors.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| September 22, 2005 | Lee, Ji-Eun | COPYRIGHT 2005 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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This paper describes an activity involving pre-service elementary teachers. The exercise explored in this activity required pre-service teachers to reflect upon their own K-12 mathematics experiences and to determine what made them uncomfortable as mathematics learners. While the exercise revealed common negative mathematics experiences among this group, the brainstorming activity aimed at generating newer ways of correcting mathematics errors proved to be more difficult than first imagined by these pre-service teachers. What can be said about this activity is that it raised the level of awareness about the importance of teacher responses on the part of ...

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