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What's Right About Wrong Answers: Learning From Math Mistakes, Grades 4-5

What's Right About Wrong Answers: Learning From Math Mistakes, Grades 4-5

Paperback

General EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 1625310862
ISBN13: 9781625310866
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 27 2017
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.40 Width: 7.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

You can't learn to hit a three-point shot without missing a lot of shots. You can't learn to play a piece of music correctly without striking a lot of wrong notes. And, as Nancy Anderson explains in What's Right About Wrong Answers: Learning From Math Mistakes, Grades 4-5, You can't learn math without making mistakes. Anderson turns mistakes on their head and helps you cleverly use them to students' advantage. Each of the twenty-two activities in this book focuses on important ideas in grades 4 5 mathematics. By examining comic strips, letters to a fictitious math expert from confused students, and sample student work containing mistakes, your learners explore typical math mistakes, reflect on why they're wrong, and move toward deeper understanding. Each activity includes:

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