Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
33rd Conference of the International-Group-for-the-Psychology-of-Mathematics-Education, Thessaloniki, Yunanistan, 19 - 24 Temmuz 2009, ss.145-147
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether combining causal and outcome related elements with mathematical content improves mathematical word problem performance, thus providing a more meaningful context to construct better situation models within an international context. Participants were 178 undergraduate students from the USA and Turkey majoring in elementary education. They were given four story problems in three formals: standard (minimal verbiage), potential causation (causal and mathematics content overlap), or climax resolution (potential causation with a discernable outcome). There are significant differences among the formats, as well as between genders and countries, Mixed results suggest solving word problems might involve the use of both schema and situation models equally.