What kinds of perceptions and daily learning behaviors promote students' use of diagrams in mathematics problem solving?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 322-335

  Uesaka, Yuri ^a   Manalo, Emmanuel ^b   Ichikawa, Shin'ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cross national comparison; Math word problem solving; Self constructed diagrams; Student strategy use

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247846290     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.02.006     Document Type: Article

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