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Cai, Jinfa; Silber, Steven; Hwang, Stephen; Nie, Bikai; Moyer, John C.; Wang, Ning – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This study examined the longitudinal effects of a middle school reform mathematics curriculum on students' open-ended problem solving in high school. Using assessment data from a large, longitudinal project, we compared the open-ended problem-solving performance and strategy use of high school students who had used the Connected Mathematics…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Educational Change, Mathematics Curriculum
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Silver, Edward A.; Cai, Jinfa – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1996
Mathematical problems generated by 509 middle school students who were given story-problem descriptions and asked to pose questions that could be answered using the information were examined for solvability, linguistic and mathematical complexity, and relationships within the sets of posed problems. The multiple-step data analysis scheme can be…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Junior High Schools, Logical Thinking, Mathematical Applications