FACULTY OF

MATHEMATICS

Contact Person: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Rach

Goals:

• support of learning from mistakes in mathematic classroom

Method:

• advanced training for teachers into a positive mistake culture and insert of handling strategies with mistakes in maths classroom
• quantitative survey with 32 classes in year 6-9 with control groups

Results:

• advanced training for a positive mistake culture results in a positive perception of mistakes (in affective area) of pupils, not compulsory an improvement of individual learning from mistakes

Something to read further:

Rach, S., Ufer, S. & Heinze, A. (2012). Learning from Errors: Effects of a teacher training on students’ attitudes towards and their individual use of errors. In T-Y. Tso (Hrsg.), Proceedings of the 36th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathe­matics Education (Vol. 3, S. 329-336). PME.

Rach, S., Ufer, S. & Heinze, A. (2012). Lernen aus Fehlern im Mathematikunterricht: kognitive und affektive Effekte zweier Interventionsmaßnahmen [Learning from mistakes in mathematical class: cognitive and affective effects of two interventions]. Unterrichtswissenschaft, 40(3), 212-234.

Heinze, A., Ufer, S., Rach, S. & Reiss, K. (2011). The Student Perspective on Dealing with Errors in Mathematics Class. In E. Wuttke & J. Seifried (Hrsg.), Learning from errors (S. 65-79). Barbara Budrich.