Sandra M. Villa, Hamide Dogan-Dunlap

Mathematics Performance and Reading Skills

Problem Solving

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mathematics Performance and Reading Skills is a
study of the correlation between a student s reading
skills and that student s ability to solve math
problems, particularly word problems. Fifty-eight
students from a private school in a southwest city
in the United States comprised the study s sample
population. The data for the quantitative analysis
was derived from students scores on the Stanford
Achievement Test. A qualitative analysis was
employed by evaluating recordings of six students
attempting to solve word problems.
Reading skills are correlated to a student s ability
to solve math problems. However, this correlation is
not as strong as one may believe. Specifically,
a student's problem-solving sessions may reveal that
a student s ability to read and
understand word problems is not significantly
correlated to
that student s ability in the context of mathematics
problems involving decoding and setting.
Consequently, evaluation of another set of skills,
other than reading skills, may be necessary before
attempting to predict a student s success in
mathematics problem solving.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783639133943
• ISBN-10: 3639133943
• Artikelnr.: 26153564

Autorenporträt

Sandra M. Villa, MAT: Studied Mathematics at the
University of Texas at El Paso. In addition to private math
tutoring, she teaches math at a private high school and a local
community college.

Hamide Dogan-Dunlap, Ph.D: Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Texas at El Paso is researching cognition
in advanced mathematics.