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Direct linkEnglard, Lisa – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2010
In a 1981 diagnostic test, the Ministry of Education in Singapore found its country facing a challenge: Only 46 percent of students in grades 2-4 could solve word problems that were presented without such key words as "altogether" or "left." Yet today, according to results from the Trends in International Mathematics and…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Problem Solving, Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics)
