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Lee, Kerry; Khng, Kiat Hui; Ng, Swee Fong; Ng Lan Kong, Jeremy – Frontline Learning Research, 2013
In Singapore, primary school students are taught to use bar diagrams to represent known and unknown values in algebraic word problems. However, little is known about students' understanding of these graphical representations. We investigated whether students use and think of the bar diagrams in a concrete or a more abstract fashion. We also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Word Problems (Mathematics)