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The Teaching of General Solution Methods to Pattern Finding Problems Through Focusing on an Evaluation and Improvement Process
Author(s) -
Ishida Junichi
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
school science and mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1949-8594
pISSN - 0036-6803
DOI - 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1997.tb17359.x
Subject(s) - mathematics education , test (biology) , strengths and weaknesses , teaching method , psychology , process (computing) , mathematics , computer science , social psychology , biology , paleontology , operating system
This study examined the effects of a teaching strategy in which fifth‐grade students evaluated the strengths or weaknesses of solution methods to pattern finding problems. The experimental and control group each consisted of thirty four elementary students in Japan who took the pre, post and retention tests. The experimental group showed a significantly better performance on the retention test although no significant differences were observed on the pre and post tests. This result suggests that the evaluation and improvement activity was important as a teaching strategy.