Upper elementary school pupils' difficulties in modeling and solving nonstandard additive word problems involving ordinal numbers

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 265-285

  Verschaffel, Lieven ^a,b   De Corte, Erik ^a   Vierstraete, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Addition, subtraction; Children's strategies; Elementary, K 8; Mathematical modeling; Problem solving; Representations, modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944507834     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749836     Document Type: Article

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