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Peer reviewedClarkson, Philip – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1983
Interviews were used to find the frequency of different types of errors made by 95 sixth-year Papua New Guinea students on a mathematics test. The general trend was the same as for western students, but the Papua New Guinea students made far fewer careless errors. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns
Peer reviewedWatson, Ivan – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1980
Diagnostic interviews were conducted with third graders to determine why they made mistakes on sixteen arithmetical tasks. A modified version of the Newman method of analyzing errors is discussed and applied to these interviews. (MP)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Computation, Elementary Education
