The Role of Context in Student-Constructed Questions.

Menon, Ramakrishnan

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Publication Date: 1995

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The Role of Context in Student-Constructed Questions.

Menon, Ramakrishnan

Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, v17 n1 p25-33 Win 1995

Analysis of student constructed questions about common and decimal fractions of (n=27) students in grades five and six revealed that students seemed to construct experience- and interest-based questions rather than textbook-type word problems which tended to be multistep problems. (12 references) (MKR)

Descriptors: Context Effect, Decimal Fractions, Elementary School Students, Fractions, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Education, Questioning Techniques, Student Developed Materials, Word Problems (Mathematics)

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