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Menlo School The purposes of error analysis are to (1) identify the patterns of errors or mistakes that students make in their work, (2) understand why students make the errors, and (3) provide targeted instruction to correct the errors. When conducting an error analysis, the teacher checks the student’s mathematics problems and categorizes the errors. The following is a list of errors that students commonly make in various mathematical areas (Ashlock, 1986; Tindal & Marston, 1990).
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