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Direct linkWeyns, Anke; Van Dooren, Wim; Dewolf, Tinne; Verschaffel, Lieven – Educational Psychology, 2017
We investigated the effect of emphasising the realistic modelling complexity in text or in the accompanying picture on the solution of P-items, in relation to pupils' grade. 290 pupils from the 5th and 6th grade of various elementary schools in Flanders (Belgium) made a paper-and-pencil task with 7 word problems that are problematic from a…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Word Problems (Mathematics), Elementary School Students
Lem, Stephanie; Baert, Kathy; Ceulemans, Eva; Onghena, Patrick; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Educational Psychology, 2017
The ability to interpret graphs is highly important in modern society, but has proven to be a challenge for many people. In this paper, two teaching methods were used to remediate one specific misinterpretation: the area misinterpretation of box plots. First, we used refutational text to explicitly state and invalidate the area misinterpretation…
Descriptors: Graphs, Teaching Methods, Misconceptions, Statistical Data
