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Article: How students "unpack" the structure of a word problem: graphic representations and problem solving.(Report)
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- School Science and Mathematics
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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This research investigated how fourth and fifth grade students spontaneously 'unpacked' a word problem when generating a graphic representation to aid in problem solution. Relationships among the type of graphic representation produced, spatial visualization, drawing ability, gender, and problem solving also were examined and described. Instrumentation developed for the study included several math challenge tasks, a spatial visualization task, and a drawing task. For one of the math challenge tasks, students were instructed to draw a picture to assist them with problem solution. These graphic representations generated by students were rated as pictorial or as displaying ...