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Peer reviewedHartweg, Kim – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2002
Presents a problem involving fractions for discussing and sharing of student responses to the problem at a later date. (KHR)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education, Fractions
Peer reviewedDuncan, David R.; Litwiller, Bonnie H. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1990
Presents two practice-discovery activities to furnish computational review in a nonroutine setting. Provides a worksheet for the activities. (YP)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Plant, Anne – CORE, 1979
Variation in syntactic difficulty in arithmetic problems is studied to determine its influence on students' ability to solve problems correctly. Findings in a study of elementary school students indicated syntactic difficulty affects problem solving ability, regardless of sex (f=fiche number). (MH)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedNesher, Pearla; Hershkovitz, Sara – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1994
Studied schemes involved in solving two-step arithmetic word problems in (n=1824) elementary schoolchildren in Israel. Compound schemes and combinations of operations were found to affect the difficulty level of the problems. Appendix includes two versions of the test instrument. (Contains 17 references.) (MKR)
Descriptors: Addition, Arithmetic, Division, Elementary Education
