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Direct linkNobre, Sandra; Amado, Nelia; Carreira, Susana – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications: An International Journal of the IMA, 2012
In this article we report and discuss a contextual problem solving task that was proposed to a class of 8th grade (13-14-year-old) students. These students had been developing a reasonable experience in the use of the spreadsheet to model relations within contextual problems and chose to use this tool to solve the mentioned problem, engaging in…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Grade 8, Algebra, Spreadsheets
