Word Problems: Game or Reality? [electronic resource] : Studies of Children's Beliefs about the Role of Real-World Knowledge in Mathematical Modeling / Erik De Corte and Others.

Two related studies are reported about the (lack of) activation of real-world knowledge in elementary school students' understanding and solution of school arithmetic word problems. In the first study a set of word problems was collectively administered to 75 fifth-graders during a typical math...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Corte, Erik de
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1995.
Subjects:	Beliefs. Cognitive Processes. Elementary School Students. Foreign Countries. Grade 5. Intermediate Grades. Mathematics Education. Misconceptions. Problem Sets. Word Problems (Mathematics)