10-second review: 8 fifth-grade students. Students’ strategies for writing math word problems emerged as they wrote them. Purpose? “Problem posing is the first step in the problem-solving process.”
Title: Selected Writing Behaviors of Fifth Graders As They composed Original Mathematics Story Problems.” Ken Winograd. Research in the Teaching of English (December 1993), 369-394.
Summary: The steps the students took in writing original math word problems: 1) identified the general problem topic. 2)Generated the culminating question. 3) They developed techniques to make their problems more difficult.
The author says the he did not try to learn whether composing word problems led to better solving word problems.
Comment: Inherent in the students’ writing original word problems is perhaps the solution to improving solving word problems: identifying the general problem topic, identifying the culminating question and identifying what gets in the way of identifying the culminating question. RayS.
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