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Craig, Tracy S. – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2016
Mathematical problem-solving is notoriously difficult to teach in a standard university mathematics classroom. The project on which this article reports aimed to investigate the effect of the writing of explanatory strategies in the context of mathematical problem solving on problem-solving behaviour. This article serves to describe the…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Mathematical Logic, Problem Solving, Foreign Countries
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Berman, Ruth A.; Nir-Sagiv, Bracha – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
In this study we argue that narrative storytelling and expository discussion, as 2 distinct discourse genres, differ both in linguistic expression and in their underlying principles of organization--schema-based in narratives and category-based in exposition. Innovative analyses applied to 160 personal-experience narratives and expository essays…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Conflict, Elementary Secondary Education, Children