Intervention Research for Helping Elementary School Students with Math Learning Difficulties Understand and Solve Word Problems: 19962010

Authors

  • Casey Hord
  • Yan Ping Xin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18666/LDMJ-2013-V19-I1-4789

Abstract

The authors completed a narrative review of studies of mathematics interventions from 1996 to 2010 for
helping elementary school students with difficulties in mathematics solve word problems. Key instructional
components supported by research are teaching cognitive and metacognitive skills; schema-based instruction
focusing on semantic analysis, transfer, or algebra readiness; and conceptual model based instruction.
Interventions designed to help students store, organize, and think critically about mathematical information
may address the needs of many struggling students while working with word problems.

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