Solution Processes and Interpretations of Solutions in Solving a Division-with-Remainder Story Problem: Do Chinese and U.S. Students Have Similar Difficulties?.

Cai, Jinfa; Silver, Edward A.

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ERIC Number: EJ516842

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Publication Date: 1995

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Solution Processes and Interpretations of Solutions in Solving a Division-with-Remainder Story Problem: Do Chinese and U.S. Students Have Similar Difficulties?

Cai, Jinfa; Silver, Edward A.

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, v26 n5 p491-97 Nov 1995

Only 25% of fifth- and sixth-grade Chinese students (n=186) correctly solved a division-with-remainder computation task, about the same success rate as with American students, and only one-sixth of the students could interpret the result. (MKR)

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies, Division, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: China

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