Thinking Aloud: Analysing Students' Mathematics Performance
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in School Psychology International
- Vol. 8 (4), 233-244
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014303438700800404
Abstract
Psychologists, teachers and researchers have a common interest in understanding how students solve mathematics problems. We want, and need, to understand how solutions to problems are developed so that interactions with both successful and unsuccessful problem-solvers can become more effective. In order to build a more sophisticated understanding of problem-solving we must consider a number of major factors — the instructional setting, the nature of the problem-solver, the resources available, the structure of the mathematical content and the student's understanding of that, and the processes used in the solution. Also needed is a technique for identifying those processes in samples of students' mathematics performance. What we learn from using the technique influences the design of future instruction.Keywords
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