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Word Problem Solving Approaches in Mathematics Textbooks: A Comparison between Singapore and Spain
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Vicente, Santiago; Sánchez, Rosario; Verschaffel, Lieven – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
Singaporean children are the best performers on international achievement tests in mathematics (i.e. the TIMSS). Their excellent results could be due at least partly to certain characteristics of the textbooks used there (Oates 2014). Therefore, these materials could be taken as a good benchmark to describe and evaluate aspects of the textbooks of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Achievement, Textbooks, Word Problems (Mathematics)