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Evaluating the Appropriateness of Tasks and the Elaboration of Multiple Solutions to Occasion Fourth-Graders' Mathematical Creative Thinking
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Gan, Huo-Hua – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
Creativity is not only for gifted students, but also for regular ones. This case study was aimed to analyze the appropriateness of tasks and the elaboration of multiple solutions to occasion fourth-graders' mathematical creative thinking through a documentary multiple-solution counting task in a figurative setting. The data came from the written…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving, Foreign Countries
An Online Game-Based Computational Estimation Assessment Combining Cognitive Diagnostic Model and Strategy Analysis
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Shih, Shu-Chuan; Kuo, Bor-Chen; Lee, Shu-Juan – Educational Psychology, 2019
This study established an online game-based assessment to explore third and fourth graders' performance of computational estimation in addition and subtraction. Students' computational estimation strategies could be automatically recorded and classified in this assessment, and the Higher-Order DINA model was used as a measurement model in order to…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Computation
Between Sudoku Rules and Labyrinthine Paths--A Study on Design for Creative Sudoku Learning
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Liao, Guan-Ze; Shih, Yi-Jyun – Designs for Learning, 2013
Sudoku is an intelligence game that has fascinated many people. In addition to offering entertainment, it also attracts players to solve more challenging Sudoku questions. Sudoku novices tend to fail to focus on understanding the operation rules because the grid, words, and numbers of Sudoku are too complicated. The main purpose of this study is…
Descriptors: Games, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Foreign Countries
Learning Achievement in Solving Word-Based Mathematical Questions through a Computer-Assisted Learning System
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Huang, Tzu-Hua; Liu, Yuan-Chen; Chang, Hsiu-Chen – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study developed a computer-assisted mathematical problem-solving system in the form of a network instruction website to help low-achieving second- and third-graders in mathematics with word-based addition and subtraction questions in Taiwan. According to Polya's problem-solving model, the system is designed to guide these low-achievers…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
Impact of Personalization of Mathematical Word Problems on Student Performance
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Bates, Eric T.; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2004
This research investigated the impact of personalizing mathematical word problems using individual student interests on student problem-solving performance. Ten word problems were selected randomly from a mathematics textbook to create a series of two assessments. Both assessments contained problems exactly as they appeared in the textbook and…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Textbooks, Student Interests, Interest Inventories
Web-Based Interactive Writing Environment: Development and Evaluation
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Yang, Jie Chi; Ko, Hwa Wei; Chung, I. Ling – Educational Technology & Society, 2005
This study reports the development and evaluation of a web-based interactive writing environment designed for elementary school students. The environment includes three writing themes, "story pass on", "story chameleon" and "thousand ideas", to encourage reading comprehension, creativity and problem-solving skills of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Socialization, Creative Writing