Making sense of realistic word problems: portraying working class 'failure' on a division with remainder problem
(2005)
Journal Article
Cooper, B., & Harries, A. (2005). Making sense of realistic word problems: portraying working class 'failure' on a division with remainder problem. International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 28(2), 147-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/01406720500256228
Children of 10–11 years of age were interviewed while undertaking a range of mathematic problems, most of which embedded mathematical operations in textually represented realistic settings. One problem, concerning a lift moving people in the morning... Read More about Making sense of realistic word problems: portraying working class 'failure' on a division with remainder problem.