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Error Analysis for Integer Problems

The document presents an error analysis exercise focused on integer operations in a word problem about a roller coaster ride. It highlights a student's incorrect calculation and explains the error in understanding the sum of opposite integers. The correct solution shows that passengers are 15 meters higher from the start after 20 seconds, along with a strategy to avoid similar mistakes in the future.

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Error Analysis for Integer Problems

The document presents an error analysis exercise focused on integer operations in a word problem about a roller coaster ride. It highlights a student's incorrect calculation and explains the error in understanding the sum of opposite integers. The correct solution shows that passengers are 15 meters higher from the start after 20 seconds, along with a strategy to avoid similar mistakes in the future.

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INTEGERS

Name (s) ______________________________________ Class_______________ Date_______________________________

ercents
ERROR ANALYSIS

Question # 0
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Error Analysis – INTEGERS


Read the word problem. Look at the students work and solution. Identify the error and describe it. Solve the problem correctly. Then
share a strategy this student could use to prevent the same error in the future.
A roller coaster at a theme park takes fans on an exciting ride. In the first 20 seconds, it carries its passengers up
a 30-meter hill, plunges them down 30 meters, and takes them back up a 15-meter rise. How much higher or
lower from the start of the ride are they after these 20 seconds?
Incorrect Work/Solution Identify and Explain the Error

30 + (−30) + 15
= −60 + 15
= −45
The passengers are 45 meters lower
from the start after 20 seconds.
Correct Work/ Solution Share a Strategy

Question # 1
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Error Analysis – Middle School Math


Answer Key

Error Correct Sample Work Correct Answer


1. The integers 30 and −30 are 30 + (−30) + 15 The passengers are 15 meters
opposites. The sum of opposite 0 + (−15) = 15 higher from the start after 20
integers is always zero. seconds.

Question # 2
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