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Direct linkCastela, Corine – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2004
The aim of the research presented in this paper is to contribute to our knowledge about problem solving in mathematics. My purpose in this paper is to compare, from this point of view, two very different institutions in the French tertiary education system, with the intention to interpret the chronic inequality of performance in problem solving…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Activities, Learning Strategies, Comparative Analysis
Pape, S. J.; Bell, C. V.; Yetkin, IE. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2003
Mathematics educators have found sociocultural models of teaching and learning to be powerful in their ability to describe and support the pursuit of instruction based on recent standards documents (e.g., National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM], 1989, 2000). These models of instruction, however, have been criticized for their lack of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Theories, Learning Strategies
