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How to Teach Students to Analyze Errors in Math

by Brain Ninjas

When students understand how they make mistakes while calculating math equations, they can begin to prevent making them. We teach our students to analyze errors in math. Come see how we use this strategy to help students deepen their math understanding and grab a free activity you can use in your upper elementary math class. We use this activity with our grade four and grade five math students and all of them benefit from it.

Over the years, we’ve had students that don’t want to correct their math errors. Why do students need to know how they made a mistake? For students, it helps them understand where they went wrong so they don’t repeat the errors. For teachers, it helps narrow down how to support or teach the student. But how do you teach students to analyze errors in math?

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Filed Under: Engaging Lessons, Teaching Strategies Tagged With: error analysis, Growth Mindset, interactive math notebooks, Math, math error analysis, math errors, Math Worksheets, Mathematics, New Math

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