Research in Mathematical Education (한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구)
- Volume 11 Issue 4
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- Pages.247-263
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- 2007
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- 1226-6191(pISSN)
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- 2287-9943(eISSN)
The Determination of Elementary School Students' Successes in Choosing an Operation and the Strategies They Used While Solving Real-World Problems
- Soylu, Yasin (Department of Science Education, Education Faculty, Ataturk University)
- Published : 2007.12.31
Abstract
Problem solving takes place not only in mathematics classes but also in real-world. For this reason, a problem and the structure of problem solving, and the enhancing of success in problem solving is a subject which has been studied by any educators. In this direction, the aim of this study is that the strategy used by students in Turkey when solving oral problems and their achievements of choosing operations when solving oral problems has been researched. In the research, the students have been asked three types of questions made up groups of 5. In the first category, S-problems (standard problems not requiring to determine any strategy but can be easily solved with only the applications of arithmetical operations), in the second category, AS-SA problems (problems that can be solved with the key word of additive operation despite to its being a subtractive operation, and containing the key word of subtractive operation despite to its being an additive operation), and in the third category P-problems (problematic problem) take place. It is seen that students did not have so much difficulty in S-problems, mistakes were made in determining operations for problem solving because of memorizing certain essential concepts, and the succession rate of students is very low in P-problems. The reasons of these mistakes as a summary are given below: