Students' Overreliance on Proportionality Evidence from Primary School Pupils Solving Arithmetic Word Problems /

Students' Overreliance on Proportionality [electronic resource] : Evidence from Primary School Pupils Solving Arithmetic Word Problems / Wim Van Dooren, Dirk De Bock and An Hessels.

Building on previous research on the tendency in students of diverse ages to overrely on proportionality in different domains of mathematics (e.g., geometry, probability), this study shows that--when confronted with missing-value word problems--Flemish primary school pupils strongly tend to apply pr...

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Main Author: Dooren, Wim van
Other Authors: Bock, Dirk de, Hessels, An, Janssens, Dirk, Verschaffel, Lieven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2004.
Subjects:
Elementary School Students.
Mathematics Education.
Word Problems (Mathematics)
Elementary School Mathematics.
Foreign Countries.
Mathematical Concepts.
Age Differences.
Problem Solving.
Cognitive Processes.
Probability.
Arithmetic.

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