Problem Solving

Research Reports

A framework to evaluate university students’ use of derive software to comprehend and apply the concept of definite integral
Matías Camacho, Ramón Depool , Manuel Santos-Trig
   
Documenting changes in pre-service elementary school teachers beliefs: attending to different aspects
Peter Liljedahl, Bettina Rösken, Katrin Rolk
 
Manners of understanding and solving mathematic problems of high school students
Armando Sepúlveda, Lourdes Guerrero, Roberto García
   
Focusing on teacher learning: revisiting the issue of having students consider multiple solutions for mathematics problems
Edward A. Silver, Charalambos Y. Charalambous, Beatriz Font Strawhun, Gabriel J. Stylianide
   
Mathematics in the making: mapping the discourse in Pólya’s “let us teach guessing” lesson
Mary P. Truxaw, Thomas C. DeFranco

 

Short Orals

Oral retellings: solution strategy for comparing word problems?
Carrie S. Cutler, Eula Ewing Monroe
   
Student cognitive processes in situational algebra tasks
Brian P. Devine
   
Comparing maps developed by practicing elementary school teachers and high school students through task-based mathematics
Diana Dimond, Janet G. Walter
 
Computer simulations for whole number arithmetic—arithmetic cartoons
Shweta Gupta, Richard Lesh
 
Impact of instructional setting, problem posing, and language on elementary school students’ performance in solving mathematical word problems
Mourat Tchoshanov
   
Students’ difficulties in understanding fractions as measures
H. Bahadir Yanik, Brandon Helding, Jae Meen Baek

 

Posters

The impact of writing on students’ performances on the post test
Recai Akkus
   
Enhancing problem solving through writing
Recai Akkus, Brian Hand
   
Examining how students' lack of procedural skills impacts the development of their conceptual understanding
Ahyoung Kim, Linda Hernandez, Kateryna Ellis, Younsu Kim, and Robert Atkinson
 
Use of everyday language and word problems
Lucila Camargo Alfaro
 
Problems that make a difference to kangaroos
Stefan Halverscheid
 
Second graders’ solution strategies and understanding of a combination problem
Tiffany Hessing, Janet Walter
 
PSM–method: a tool for problem solving
Henry Leppäah
 
No way that’s two hundred and fifty inches deep! mathematical understanding in an apprenticeship classroom
Lyndon C. Martin, Lionel N. LaCroix, Lynda Fownes
 
Effects of inter-group and intra-group sharing of mathematical practices, processes, and products in a middle school mathematics classroom
Sandra Lynn Richardson
   
Middle school mathematics through muraling
Kumari Devi Sivam
 
Mathematical ideas elicited when students solve mathematically rich tasks in two languages
Sonia Soto, Guadalupe Carmona
   
Students’ solution strategies to differential equations problems in mathematical and non-mathematical contexts
Deborah S. Upton