Pathways to word problem solving: The mediating roles of schema construction and mathematical vocabulary

Pathways to word problem solving: The mediating roles of schema construction and mathematical vocabulary

• Chan, Winnie Wai Lan The University of Hong Kong
• Kwan, Lok Yin Joyce The Education University of Hong Kong

Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2021

Elsevier

2021

• G 課程與教學:個別教學範疇
  • GB 英文
    • GBD 閱讀理解之教學方法效果、字彙教學

Word Problems Schema Vocabulary Arithmetic Children

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 未指定或無法歸類

When solving word problems, many children encounter difficulties in making sense of the information and integrate it into a meaningful schema. This is the fundamental phase on which subsequent problem solution depends. To better understand the processing underlying this fundamental phase, this study examined the roles of schema construction and knowledge of mathematical vocabularies in word problem solving. The participants were 139 Chinese third graders studying in Hong Kong. Path analysis showed that there were two kinds of pathways to word problem solving: language-related and number-related. In particular, reading fluency was related to word problem solving in two mediated language-related pathways: one via schema construction, the other via knowledge of mathematical vocabularies. In the number-related pathway, arithmetic concept was related to word problem solving via knowledge of mathematical vocabularies. These findings highlight the specific roles of schema construction and mathematical vocabulary in word problem solving, thereby providing useful implications of how best to support children in understanding and integrating the information from the problem. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

• 英文

期刊論文

• 0361476X

• 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2021.101963

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/18e56ff2

2021-06-15