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Direct linkWestwood, Peter – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2011
This viewpoint paper presents the writer's opinion that while the use of problem solving as the core method for learning mathematics is valid and reasonable in secondary schools (where students generally possess the necessary prior skills and strategies) there are many obstacles to applying the same method in primary schools, particularly in the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Learning Problems, Numeracy, Problem Based Learning
