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MATHBOXES: A Program for the Apple II to Teach Children to Solve Basic Word Problems. A Report from the Project Using the Microcomputer to Teach Problem-Solving Skills. Program Report 85-5.
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Bebout, Harriett C.; And Others – 1985
This manual is used with MATHBOXES, a computer program written for Apple II microcomputers to help children relate formal mathematical symbols for representing simple word problems to the informal strategies using physical objects that they naturally use to solve them. There is a substantial body of research that documents that young children are…
Descriptors: Addition, Computer Software, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics