Analysis of solving problems

✍ Scribed by Joost Meijer; Fré Riemersma

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 926 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-4277
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00139601

✦ Synopsis

In the context of a larger research project we collected thinking-aloud protocols from pupils of secondary schools when they tried to solve mathematical problems. Pupils solved arithmetic story problems and geometrical problems. The protocols were analysed by using interpretation models. These models were founded on a general problem-solving model. The analysis provided a description of the processes that pupils used to solve the mathematical tasks. Further explication resulted from simulation of solving word problems, using a LISP-based program, SSPS (Simulation of Story Problem Solving).