Word problem solving in contemporary math education: A plea for reading comprehension skills training [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Successfully solving mathematical word problems requires both mental representation skills and reading comprehension skills. In Realistic Math Education (RME), however, students primarily learn to apply the first of these skills (i.e., representational ...
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Closing the Word-Problem Achievement Gap in First Grade: Schema-Based Word-Problem Intervention with Embedded Language Comprehension Instruction. [PDF]
J Educ Psychol, 2021 The main purpose of this study was to test the effects of word-problem intervention, with versus without embedded language comprehension instruction, on at-risk 1st graders' word-problem performance. We also isolated the need for a structured approach to
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Operation-Specific Lexical Consistency Effect in Fronto-Insular-Parietal Network During Word Problem Solving [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 The practice of mathematical word problem is ubiquitous and thought to impact academic achievement. However, the underlying neural mechanisms are still poorly understood.
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Problem-appropriate diagram instruction for improving mathematical word problem solving [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The use of diagrams can be effective in solving mathematical word problems solving. However, students worldwide do not construct diagrams unprompted or have trouble using them.
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Improving Language Comprehension to Enhance Word-Problem Solving. [PDF]
Read Writ Q, 2020 The focus of this article is the role of language comprehension within word-problem solving (WPS). The role of the language comprehension in WPS is explained, and an overview of research illustrating language comprehension’s contribution to WPS is ...
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Retrieval practice may not benefit mathematical word-problem solving [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 The retrieval practice effect refers to the fact that one or even multiple retrievals of memory content during the same period are more effective than repeated studying to promote future memory retention.
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Graph-to-Tree Neural Networks for Learning Structured Input-Output Translation with Applications to Semantic Parsing and Math Word Problem [PDF]
Findings, 2020 The celebrated Seq2Seq technique and its numerous variants achieve excellent performance on many tasks such as neural machine translation, semantic parsing, and math word problem solving.
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Mapping to Declarative Knowledge for Word Problem Solving [PDF]
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021 Math word problems form a natural abstraction to a range of quantitative reasoning problems, such as understanding financial news, sports results, and casualties of war.
Subhro Roy, Dan Roth
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Connections Between Reading Comprehension and Word-Problem Solving via Oral Language Comprehension: Implications for Comorbid Learning Disabilities. [PDF]
New Dir Child Adolesc Dev, 2019 In this article, we discuss the approach adopted within the Vanderbilt University Learning Disabilities Innovation Hub, which focuses on students with higher-order comorbidity: students with concurrent difficulty with reading comprehension and word ...
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Text Comprehension and Oral Language as Predictors of Word-Problem Solving: Insights into Word-Problem Solving as a Form of Text Comprehension. [PDF]
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