Pre-service teachers' conceptions and beliefs about the role of real-world knowledge in mathematical modelling of school word problems |
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Authors: | L Verschaffel E De Corte I Borghart |
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Institution: | Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology, University of Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Recent research has documented that many pupils show a strong tendency to exclude real-world knowledge from their solutions of school arithmetic word problems. In the present study, a test consisting of 14 word problems—half of which were problematic from a realistic point of view—was administered to a large group of students from three different teacher training institutes in Flanders. For each word problem, the student-teachers were first asked to solve the problem themselves, and afterwards to evaluate four different answers given by pupils. The results revealed a strong tendency among student-teachers to exclude real-world knowledge from their own spontaneous solutions of school word problems as well as from their appreciations of the pupils' answers. |
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