Error Analysis/Reteach Reflection

I really enjoyed completing this activity. I found it fun and very interesting. It was a lot harder than I thought to identify the mistakes the students made. It was also eye opening because I never realized some of the strange ways that my future students could possibly misunderstand math applications. I really liked that we were asked to think of a way to reteach the coordinating topic for one of the students. It made me think of a different approach to take in order for them to better understand how to complete a problem. This is an important practice that I think some teachers forget. If a student does not fully comprehend the material being taught, I believe it is extremely important for teachers to revisit it. I think teachers tend to  avoid re-teaching material because they feel that it will take away time from other content that needs to be covered. While this is true, it is also the incorrect approach because many mathematics concepts builds upon one another. Students won't be able to learn new material if they don't understand the previous material.  As a future teacher I will look for these possible errors or misunderstandings with my students and reteach when necessary.