Error Analysis

                This blog will be about error analysis. Errors are made many times by your students throughout your teaching career. They could  be really simple errors that are easy to catch and fix, or they could be a little more complicated and need a little more analyzing to figure out. Analyzing errors is important not only for the students sake, but for the teachers sake too. From the teachers perspective, it is important because it shows what you need to go over again or help students with so that way they are not making that mistake again in the future. From the student's perspective, it's important because if the mistakes they are making are not caught, then they will continue to make those same mistakes throughout their school careers. That will in turn make it difficult to get through the other math classes that they will face.
                   It seemed to me like there are many regrouping and place value mistakes that are being make from the problems that we analyzed in class. Some of the students were borrowing from the wrong place (example borrowing from the tens when they should be borrowing from the hundreds), regrouping wrong by not crossing out the number which causes them to be off by one. As mentioned before, even though these mistakes are not very bad mistakes, they still effect the student to solve the problem correctly. I will certainly have to keep these in mind as I get my own classroom in the future. I will make sure that I analyze my students' work as I am grading them to make sure that they are not making any of those simple mistakes!