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Stop! Look & Lesson
Stop! Look & Lesson
A Guide To Identifying And Correcting Common Mathematical Errors
Don Palmer, Malcolm Kays, Andrew Smith, Brian Doig
ACER, 1994
Stop! Look & Lesson is a two-book set that was originally produced by the Department of Education (under the title of TEDDIS Remediation Manual Vols 1, 2 and 3).
The Manual gives definitions and examples of some 150 common errors made by students in their number work, and describes the common causes. This makes it easy for teachers to diagnose student problems.
The book of Strategies gives teachers a range of strategies and ideas - real, practical help - to overcome students' problems with number. Each strategy is linked to a specific error. Strategies are classroom ready and easy to use. Most strategies are activity sheets in photocopiable form for teachers. Some come as teacher notes to help plan number activities.
Students having difficulties with mathematical computation need accurate diagnosis and effective reteaching strategies. Stop! Look & Lesson provides both of these in an easy-to-use form, without jargon or necessity for other resources.
Stop! Look & Lesson is for anyone who wants to:
- STOP students making arithmetic errors
- LOOK at their students' work
- try strategies in their LESSON plans to remedy these errors
The special education teacher, the classroom teacher and the student will be able to identify errors by studying the examples and definitions, and can then use the large collection of suggested strategies to assist in alleviating and remedying these errors.
Stop! Look & Lesson was developed in Tasmania by a group of educators who believed that:
- students are usually consistent in the way they work, even when incorrect,
- the same error can be made by different students for different reasons.
The team which developed Stop! Look & Lesson has classified students into four categories in order to increase the power of the reteaching strategies and their associated error definitions.
Category One: Students who are careless or have concentration problems
Category Two: Students with fundamental misconceptions
Category Three: Students searching for a method - the "tinkerers"
Category Four: Students with ingrained wrong methods
Stop! Look & Lesson was distributed free of charge to all Tasmanian Government Schools in 1998.
Stop! Look & Lesson can be ordered from:
ACER
Private Bag 55
Camberwell
Victoria 3124
telephone: 03 9277 5555
fax: 03 9277 5500
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