Factors affecting the difficulty of comparison-type word problems in primary mathematics
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Tartalom: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12944/109932
Archívum: Közszolgálati Tudásportál
Gyűjtemény: Publikációk
Nemeskürty István Tanárképző Kar
Cím:
Factors affecting the difficulty of comparison-type word problems in primary mathematics
Létrehozó:
Kónya, Eszter
Vértessy, Balázs
Téma:
word problem
comparison problem
linguistic structure of the problem
problem difficulty
Természettudományok
Természettudományok/Matematika- és számítástudományok
Tartalmi leírás:
This study investigates factors influencing the difficulty of compare word problems (WPs), a crucial theme for early mathematical development, often linked to quantitative observations. Four factors are examined: the required operation (addition/subtraction vs. multiplication/division), the lexical consistency (match between problem-wording and required operation), the role of the unknown (compared set, comparative relation, or reference set), and order-consistency (the order of numbers in the text is consistent or inconsistent with them in the operation sentence). A written survey containing single-operation WPs was administered to 651 students of grade 3 and grade 4 from Eastern Hungary. The proportion of correct responses measured the item’s difficulty. Results confirmed the strong influence of required operation and lexical consistency in line with prior research. Furthermore, a similar difficulty order based on the unknown type was observed in additive and multiplicative compare problems. However, while influential, order-consistency proved less decisive than the other factors.
Típus:
info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Formátum:
application/pdf
Azonosító:
nke:1305-8223
nke:1305-8215
nke:10.29333/ejmste/17564
nke:36847198
nke:10058509
nke:Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education
nke:22
nke:1
nke:105026480040
nke:EURASIA J MATH SCI T
Létrehozó:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess