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Direct linkDennis, Minyi Shih; Knight, Jacqueline; Jerman, Olga – Preventing School Failure, 2016
This article describes how to teach fraction and percentage word problems using a model-drawing strategy. This cognitive strategy places emphasis on explicitly teaching students how to draw a schematic diagram to represent the qualitative relations described in the problem, and how to formulate the solution based on the schematic diagram. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Disabilities, Word Problems (Mathematics), Models
Protagonist Gender as a Design Variable in Adapting Mathematics Story Problems to Learner Interests.
Peer reviewedMurphy, Laura O.; Ross, Steven M. – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1990
Describes study of eighth grade students that was designed to determine whether gender of the protagonist in mathematics story problems can play a significant role in mathematics learning. The use of the Secondary-School Attitudes toward Women Scale is described, and correlations among individual difference and task-outcome variables are analyzed.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Correlation
