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Acevedo Nistal, Ana; Van Dooren, Wim; Verschaffel, Lieven – Educational Studies, 2013
Thirty-six secondary school students aged 14-16 were interviewed while they chose between a table, a graph or a formula to solve three linear function problems. The justifications for their choices were classified as (1) task-related if they explicitly mentioned the to-be-solved problem, (2) subject-related if students mentioned their own…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Problem Solving, Tables (Data), Graphs
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Gómez Ferragud, Carlos B.; Solaz-Portolés, Joan Josep; Sanjosé, Vicente – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
We conducted a qualitative research of case studies based on think-aloud protocols. The aim was to carry out in-depth analyse secondary students' cognitive difficulties appearing in early stages of transfer processes in problem-solving. The task was to relate several source problems to a target problem, in order to solve it effectively. Source and…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Units of Study, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking
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Cozza, Barbara; Oreshkina, Maria – School Science and Mathematics, 2013
The purpose of this qualitative study was: (a) to explore the cognitive and metacognitive processes of mathematics problem-solving discourse of 10-year-old students in Russia, Spain, Hungary, and the United States; and (b) to explore the patterns of social interactions during small group work. Data were analyzed using a cognitive/metacognitive…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cognitive Processes, Metacognition, Foreign Countries