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Izsak, Andrew; Caglayan, Gunhan; Olive, John – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
We describe how 1 Algebra I teacher and her 8th-grade students used meta-representational knowledge when generating and evaluating equations to solve word problems. Analyzing data from a sequence of 4 lessons, we found that the teacher and her students used criteria for evaluating equations, in addition to other types of knowledge (e.g., different…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Equations (Mathematics), Algebra, Mathematics Instruction