Error Patterns in Computation: Using Error Patterns to Help Each Student Learn (10th Edition)
 Error Patterns in Computation:  Using Error Patterns to Help Each Student Learn, Tenth EditionRobert B. Ashlock, Covenant College The only text of its kind to show teachers how to identify common error patterns in mathematics!  As students learn about mathematical operations and methods of computation, they may adopt erroneous procedures and misconceptions.  This engaging book was written to model how the instructor can make thoughtful analyses of their students’ work and in so doing, discover patterns in errors made.  This supplementary text guides teachers to consider reasons why students may have learned erroneous procedures in the first place and presents strategies for helping those students.  Readers come away from the book with a clear vision of how to use student error patterns to gain more specific knowledge of students' understanding and to use that information to inform their future instruction.  In addition to being substantially revised, the new edition offers greater emphasis on the following important topics:Use of diagnosisas a part of formative assessment, including open-ended assessment and problem writing as examplesApplication of Big Ideas--including compensation principles, relations between operations, and “There are many names for a number”--to form connections among facts, procedures, and concepts by applying big ideasDistinction between misconceptions and error patterns in computationUnderstanding of oursystem of numerationUnderstanding the meanings of operations of arithmeticso students will know when to use each operation when solving problemsRepresentation of concepts and proceduresin a variety of waysUse of classroom discourse, careful listening, and probing questionsAssessmentof dispositionsPlanningfor varied instruction