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Star, Jon R.; Seifert, Colleen – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2006
This paper explores the development of students' knowledge of mathematical procedures. Students' tendency to develop rote knowledge of procedures has been widely commented on. An alternative, more flexible endpoint for the development of procedural knowledge is explored here, where students choose to deviate from established solving patterns on…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction