Timeline for How do you coach students who often make small errors?
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| Apr 9, 2021 at 15:07 | vote | accept | Mike Pierce | ||
| Apr 5, 2021 at 14:09 | comment | added | leslie townes | I've always struggled with this. Sign errors and factors of two. Talking through is the only technique that works for me. It assumes that time is not of the essence. Ideally, ask me to break down my calculation further. Ask me to explain it in detail, to the point of "this is the distributive law a(b+c) = ab + ac with a = _, b = _, c = _." Like I'm telling a computer how to do it. My problem was I'd recognize a sub-part of a problem as a known, solved thing and just stop paying as close attention because I knew it was conceptually boring, even if it was necessary to getting the right answer. | |
| Apr 5, 2021 at 9:49 | comment | added | Stian | I used to review my own calculations sort of "meta". That is, I would star each line which had the potential of carrying a sign error. I got used to doing it on the fly. This made me catch several errors as they happened, and more when I was proofreading. I would never have survived matrix calculus without it, seeing as I am not a very rigorous math practicioner. | |
| Apr 2, 2021 at 15:27 | comment | added | J W | See also "Self-explanation training": lboro.ac.uk/departments/mec/research/mathematical-cognition/… | |
| Apr 2, 2021 at 14:56 | history | answered | Mike Pierce | CC BY-SA 4.0 |