Error Patterns in Computation: Using Error Patterns to Help Each Student Learn [Paperback]

• Emphasizes assessment and the role of diagnosis within formative assessment.
• Provides guidance and resources for assessing and interviewing students.
• Incorporates students papers in which readers identify patterns of responses and compare their instructional recommendations with those of the author. 
• Readers also practice identifying misconceptions and error patterns.
• Focuses on concepts and principles.
• Allows an instructor to teach computation in accordance with the NCTM Standards.
• Gives students an understanding of the meanings of operations and not just methods of computation.
• Enables students to know when particular operations are needed for solving a problem.
• Retains its emphasis on computational fluency.
• Stresses estimation and the best computing choice (mental computation, paper-and-pencil, calculator) in specific scenarios.
• Stresses estimation.
• Encourages readers to ask their students, Is it reasonable? 
• Provides current strategies.
• Examines models and concrete materials, graphic organizers, self-assessment, portfolios, peer tutoring, and cooperative groups used when teaching computation.
• Incorporates reader recommendations that increase the texts user-friendly and pragmatic appeal.

Robert Ashlock began his career in 1957 as a fourth and fifth grade teacher with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. He later received a master's degree in elementary school administration from Butler University and a doctorate in elementary education from Indiana University. He became a graduate assistant and teaching associate at Il3@