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Peer reviewedWollman, Warren – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1983
Reasons for college students making reversal errors translating a sentence to an equation were explored in six studies. The principal sources were haste, failure to check, failure to base the equation on the sentence meaning, and use of nonalgebraic symbols. Students could successfully check when prompted. (MNS)
Descriptors: Algebra, College Mathematics, College Students, Error Patterns
Peer reviewedGraeber, Anna O.; And Others – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1989
Studied were the misconceptions that preservice elementary teachers have about multiplication and division. Results indicated that they are influenced by the same primitive models as students; the most common errors made by both groups are quite similar. (MNS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Students, Computation, Concept Formation
