Children's Error in “Addition
Yam Prasad Pandeya
Siddhajyoti Education Campus
Abstract
It is based on a
study concerned errors made by children of primary school while performing an
addition operation. The addition is one of the basic mathematical operations
that children practices in early classes. This research was intended to find
out the types of an error made by children in addition. The researcher prepared a questionnaire containing
20 different questions focusing on children of 5 to 7 years. Five schools were
selected by purposive sampling and 50 students by random sampling. A test was
administered among them and analyzed the errors made by them. The findings
revealed that many children had confusion about the basic fact of “Addition” as
they made mistakes while setting numerals as horizontally and, some children
wrote the carried number in answer, some of them forgot carried number, and
some added the carried number twice and some children made errors by starting
to add from the left-hand side.