Conceptual Problem Solving Skills
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Conceptual Model-Based Problem Solving
Author: Yan Ping Xin
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2013-02-11
Are you having trouble in finding Tier II intervention materials for elementary students who are struggling in math? Are you hungry for effective instructional strategies that will address students’ conceptual gap in additive and multiplicative math problem solving? Are you searching for a powerful and generalizable problem solving approach that will help those who are left behind in meeting the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM)? If so, this book is the answer for you. • The conceptual model-based problem solving (COMPS) program emphasizes mathematical modeling and algebraic representation of mathematical relations in equations, which are in line with the new Common Core. • “Through building most fundamental concepts pertinent to additive and multiplicative reasoning and making the connection between concrete and abstract modeling, students were prepared to go above and beyond concrete level of operation and be able to use mathematical models to solve more complex real-world problems. As the connection is made between the concrete model (or students’ existing knowledge scheme) and the symbolic mathematical algorithm, the abstract mathematical models are no longer “alien” to the students.” As Ms. Karen Combs, Director of Elementary Education of Lafayette School Corporation in Indiana, testified: “It really worked with our kids!” • “One hallmark of mathematical understanding is the ability to justify,... why a particular mathematical statement is true or where a mathematical rule comes from” (http://illustrativemathematics.org/standards). Through making connections between mathematical ideas, the COMPS program makes explicit the reasoning behind math, which has the potential to promote a powerful transfer of knowledge by applying the learned conception to solve other problems in new contexts. • Dr. Yan Ping Xin’s book contains essential tools for teachers to help students with learning disabilities or difficulties close the gap in mathematics word problem solving. I have witnessed many struggling students use these strategies to solve word problems and gain confidence as learners of mathematics. This book is a valuable resource for general and special education teachers of mathematics. - Casey Hord, PhD, University of Cincinnati
Problem Solving Ability and Achievement in Physics: Effect of Mastery Learning Strategy
Author: Dr. Manoj Praveen G. & Prof. (Dr.) K. Sivarajan
language: en
Publisher: Ashok Yakkaldevi
Release Date: 2020-12-25
Education has been considered as the most important input and the most potent instrument for the development of an individual. It is the key to national prosperity and welfare and that no investment is too great for it. It is evident that education has a very important role to play in the economic and social development of the country, in the building up of the truly democratic society, in the promotion of national integration and unity, and above all for the transformation of individual in the endless pursuit of excellence and perfection. The students in a classroom have different socio-economic status, aptitudes, interests, attitudes etc. and among them have different IQ levels. In a classroom situation where the students are varied in learning levels, (i.e., average, below average and above average) most of the time teachers teach for the average, neglecting the above average and below average in their hurry to finish the syllabus. In the classroom the above average feel bored and the slow-learners remain passive and day-by-day become poor in the subject.
Problems and Problem Solving in Chemistry Education
Author: Georgios Tsaparlis
language: en
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
Release Date: 2021
Problem solving is central to the teaching and learning of chemistry at secondary, tertiary and post-tertiary levels of education, opening to students and professional chemists alike a whole new world for analysing data, looking for patterns and making deductions. As an important higher-order thinking skill, problem solving also constitutes a major research field in science education. Relevant education research is an ongoing process, with recent developments occurring not only in the area of quantitative/computational problems, but also in qualitative problem solving. The following situations are considered, some general, others with a focus on specific areas of chemistry: quantitative problems, qualitative reasoning, metacognition and resource activation, deconstructing the problem-solving process, an overview of the working memory hypothesis, reasoning with the electron-pushing formalism, scaffolding organic synthesis skills, spectroscopy for structural characterization in organic chemistry, enzyme kinetics, problem solving in the academic chemistry laboratory, chemistry problem-solving in context, team-based/active learning, technology for molecular representations, IR spectra simulation, and computational quantum chemistry tools. The book concludes with methodological and epistemological issues in problem solving research and other perspectives in problem solving in chemistry. With a foreword by George Bodner.