Table 4 Students’ errors in task 2
From: Analysis of errors in derivatives of trigonometric functions
Students’ written work in task 2 | No. of conceptual errors | No. of interpretation errors | No. of linear extrapolation errors | No. of procedural errors | No errors | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Question | 1.1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 1 |
1.2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 7 | |
Question | 2.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24 |
2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | |
2.3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25 | |
Question | 3.1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
3.2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 0 | |
3.3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 12 | |
Total number of errors | 18 | 13 | 1 | 70 | 96 | |