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Direct linkVan Dooren, Wim; De Bock, Dirk; Vleugels, Kim; Verschaffel, Lieven – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2010
Upper primary school children often routinely apply proportional methods to missing-value problems, even when it is inappropriate. We tested whether this tendency could be weakened if children were not required to produce computational answers to such problems. A total of 75 sixth graders were asked to classify 9 word problems of three types (3…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Classification, Word Problems (Mathematics), Grade 6
