Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper S095

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN 0-321-68983-6, Copyright (C) 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Classifying Students' Mistakes in Handheld Devices

Kevin Anderson


Missouri Western State University

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Tim Miller


Missouri Western State University

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Tingxiu Wang


Missouri Western State University

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ABSTRACT

Handheld devices have been commonly used in teaching and learning. Students often make mistakes with handheld devices. Either they do not know how they made a mistake, or they do not know why a mistake happened. This paper classifies students' mistakes in handheld devices with some examples.

Keyword(s): calculators, pedagogy