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BA (Hons) Primary Education Year 2 Semester 3 November 2002 Mathematics Assignment PR2315 "Errors and Misconceptions" The National Numeracy Strategy (DfEE 1999: part 1, p.12) requires teachers to 'identify mistakes, using them as positive teaching points by talking about them and any misconceptions that led to them'. When dealing with a child's errors in their work it is not enough to simply mark them as wrong, the child must be given the opportunity to develop a greater level of understanding through correction. This may not simply be re-calculating a sum, but revising their ideas and concepts of the particular topic area. According to Skemp (1989) 'by the process of understanding, that which began as an error becomes a contribution to knowledge' p.200. As identified in Pollard & Tann (1993) it is also true that if a child is allowed to continuously make errors in the same subject or on the same topic 'the child can be...

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