Word Problem Research
What Teachers Say About Student Difficulties Solving Mathematical Word Problems in Grades 2-5
This article analyzes the difficulties of word problems for children. It does this through a study of teacher's explanations of the parts of word problems that cause students to struggle. It also aims at discovering the best strategies that help increase children's word problem solving ability. They did this by asking seventy Elementary school teachers four simple questions. At the end it explains all of the answers and different classroom practices for teaching word problems.
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Pearce, D. L., Bruun, F., Skinner, K., & Lopez-Mohler, C. (2013). What Teachers Say About Student Difficulties Solving Mathematical Word Problems in Grades 2-5. International Electronic Journal Of Mathematics Education, 8(1), 3-19.
The Effect of Personalized Word Problems
This article explains how teacher created word problems help scaffold students word problem solving ability. Creating problems about common experiences and people they know helps them comprehend the problem faster and makes it easier to pick out the important information
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Hart, J. M. (1996). The Effect of Personalized Word Problems. Teaching Children Mathematics, 2(8), 504-505. Retrieved from http://http://www-tc.pbs.org/teacherline/courses/math295/pdfs/acf450.pdf