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Bautista, Debbie; Mulligan, Joanne; Mitchelmore, Michael – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2009
Young Filipino children are expected to solve mathematical word problems in English, a task which they typically encounter only in schools. In this exploratory study, task-based interviews were conducted with seven Filipino children from a public school. The children were asked to read and solve addition and subtraction word problems in English or…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Word Problems (Mathematics), Subtraction, English (Second Language)
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Barwell, Richard – British Educational Research Journal, 2005
There has been little research in the UK into how students learning English as an additional language (EAL) learn mathematics. This article reports results from a three-year study of the participation of learners of EAL in Year 5 in an arithmetic word problem task. The research, drawing on ideas from discursive psychology, used discourse analysis…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Grade 5, Language Usage, Arithmetic