A constructivist instructional approach to arithmetic word problem-solving: Children as authors and collaborators

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (1989) has identified problem solving as a major goal of school mathematics. Arithmetic word problem solving is difficult for children. The primary cause of this difficulty is not computational, as once believed, but representational. Children have dif...

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Main Author: Etheredge, Susan Mary
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1995
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9541102