Primary school Mathematical Kangaroo: Mistakes in selected word problems.

Authors

NOVÁKOVÁ Eva

Year of publication 2017
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference International Symposium Elementary Maths Teaching: Equity and diversity in elementary mathematics education.
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Keywords Mathematical Kangaroo; primary school mathematics; word problems; mistakes in pupils' solutions
Description In our contribution we analyze mistakes in two Mathematical kangaroo (closed) word problems. In the Czech environment, closed word problems are rather scarce; primary school pupils often do not have enough experience with them. We believe that the quantitative analysis of the choice of incorrect distractors enables us to estimate the reasons of pupils' mistakes.

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