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Strategies To Develop Effective Problem Solving Habits For English Learners In A Problem-Based Learning Classroom, Iain Lempke

School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

The research question addressed in this thesis was, how do students with varying levels of English proficiency respond to identified teaching strategies noted in the research literature that support them with developing a “problem-model approach” to solving mathematics word problems? It draws on the work of Hegarty et. al (1995) who defined the term “problem-model approach” as “trying to construct a mental model of the situation being described in the problem and plan their solution on the basis of this model”. It documents one teacher’s attempt to teach the Read-And-Think Math strategy as described by Nessel and Graham (2006) to …