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Direct linkDrake, Jill Mizell; Barlow, Angela T. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2008
When the word problems of forty-five sixth-grade students were examined, multiple levels of understanding and misunderstanding multiplication were exposed. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the potential of problem writing as a technique for assessing the depths of students' mathematical understandings. Discussions include sample…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication, Grade 6
