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Identifier	Thesis 2135
Author	Niemann, John H., 1976-
Title	Teaching students how to solve word problems with critical thinking: notions of arithmetic and key words
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Date	2011; *
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Notes	American students have been underperforming on international standardized tests for over thirty years. These concerns have been documented in publications (i.e. A Nation at Risk). The United States federal government has also written ―No Child Left Behind‖ in 2002 to address the problem and emphasized standardized testing as a way to evaluate teacher effectiveness. However, despite all of the effort to attach standardized test scores to teacher effectiveness no significant growth has been shown in 4th and 8th grade student mathematics scores since the law was created. In an effort to develop new methods of instruction that did not rely on ―teaching to the test‖, this researcher evaluated the curriculum of the top three countries that perform well on the Program of International Student Assessment. Japan, Finland, and Singapore have developed challenging curriculums and methods of instruction that increase the ability of students to solve word problems. Other researchers have developed ways of bringing these methods to the United States in order to increase student learning. This researcher developed a method of instruction combining the twelve notions of arithmetic from Dr. Philip Halloran and writing algebraic equations to help students solve word problems. This method of instruction was compared to a control group that learned how to solve problems by memorizing the ―key words‖. The students in the experimental and control classroom were given a fifty question word problem at the end of a six week study. The students in the experimental classroom performed significantly better than the control group. They scored on average nineteen points higher than the control group.
Subject	Word problems (Mathematics) -- Study and teaching Problem solving -- Study and teaching
Department	Department of Mathematical Sciences
Advisor	Halloran, Philip P
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
OCLC number	804652997
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