ERIC Number: EJ1372927
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-8251
EISSN: EISSN-1945-2306
Word Problem Performance of U.S. First Graders in the 20th Century and Common Core Era
Schoen, Robert; Whitacre, Ian; Champagne, Zachary
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, v54 n1 p24-42 Jan 2023
Changes in U.S. textbooks indicate that U.S. first-grade students in the Common Core era were exposed to a wider variety of word problem types than students in previous generations were. We compared the performance of U.S. first graders in the Common Core era with that of previous generations in solving 11 types of additive word problems to investigate a decades-long debate--whether certain types of word problems are inherently more difficult than others or whether relative difficulty is influenced by exposure. We found that overall patterns of relative difficulty persist; however, U.S. first graders in the Common Core era outperformed their historical counterparts when solving the types of problems that rarely appeared in textbooks used in the 1980s.
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Grade 1, Common Core State Standards, Educational History, Difficulty Level, Textbooks, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Problem Solving, Mathematics Curriculum, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Grade 1; Primary Education
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Language: English
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