BenLowell comments on Why do people commit mathematical mistakes? What are the mechanisms behind them? - Less Wrong
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What techniques do you have for reducing careless errors? How do these scale in stressful/timed situations?
I don't have any explicit techniques now. Apparently then, "most of your careless errors were in math, so I had you solve each problem and then re-work each backward." was the only technique my mom remembers. That clearly doesn't scale to timed situations.