Error Analysis: Learning From Wrong Answers on Purpose

A practical classroom routine for helping students examine plausible mistakes, explain why they fail, repair the reasoning, and verify a better solution.

A practical classroom routine for helping students examine plausible mistakes, explain why they fail, repair the reasoning, and verify a better solution.

A practical framework for building and facilitating classroom case studies that ask students to weigh evidence, make decisions, and explain their reasoning.

Use this adaptable classroom routine to help students generate meaningful questions, improve them, choose the most useful ones, and put them to work.