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Haghverdi, Majid; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2016
This study shows how separate and combined contextual and conceptual problem rewording can positively influence student performance in solving mathematical word problems. Participants included 80 seventh-grade Iranian students randomly assigned in groups of 20 to three experimental groups involving three types of rewording and a control group. All…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving
Frost, Janet Hart; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2007
Females, students of color, and students of low socioeconomic status (SES) are often underserved or marginalized in mathematics education. However, some instructional approaches and intervention programs have been shown to educate these students more equitably. This study examines how girls of diverse racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Intervention, Student Attitudes, Females
Bates, Eric T.; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2004
This research investigated the impact of personalizing mathematical word problems using individual student interests on student problem-solving performance. Ten word problems were selected randomly from a mathematics textbook to create a series of two assessments. Both assessments contained problems exactly as they appeared in the textbook and…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Textbooks, Student Interests, Interest Inventories