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Volume 52, Issue 1

April 2020

Mathematical word problem solving: Psychological and educational perspectives

Issue Editors:

Lieven Verschaffel,
Stanislaw Schukajlow,
Jon Star,
Wim Dooren

13 articles in this issue

Word problems in mathematics education: a survey
Lieven Verschaffel
Stanislaw Schukajlow
Wim Van Dooren
Survey Paper 13 January 2020 Pages: 1 - 16
Word problem solving and pictorial representations: insights from an exploratory study in kindergarten
Iliada Elia
Original Article 29 November 2019 Pages: 17 - 31
What makes mathematical word problem solving challenging? Exploring the roles of word problem characteristics, text comprehension, and arithmetic skills
Nonmanut Pongsakdi
Anu Kajamies
Erno Lehtinen
Original Article Open access 17 December 2019 Pages: 33 - 44
Comparing eye movements during mathematical word problem solving in Chinese and German
Anselm R. Strohmaier
Anja Schiepe-Tiska
Kristina M. Reiss
Original Article 08 August 2019 Pages: 45 - 58
Comparing German and Taiwanese secondary school students’ knowledge in solving mathematical modelling tasks requiring their assumptions
Yu-Ping Chang
Janina Krawitz
Kai-Lin Yang
Original Article 13 September 2019 Pages: 59 - 72
Simple pictorial mathematics problems for children: locating sources of cognitive load and how to reduce it
Ernest C. D. M. van Lieshout
Iro Xenidou-Dervou
Original Article Open access 12 September 2019 Pages: 73 - 85
Addressing the role of working memory in mathematical word-problem solving when designing intervention for struggling learners
Lynn Fuchs
Douglas Fuchs
Marcia A. Barnes
Original Article 03 July 2019 Pages: 87 - 96
Measuring and investigating strategic knowledge about drawing to solve geometry modelling problems
Johanna Rellensmann
Stanislaw Schukajlow
Claudia Leopold
Original Article 30 August 2019 Pages: 97 - 110
Learning to be an opportunistic word problem solver: going beyond informal solving strategies
Katarina Gvozdic
Emmanuel Sander
Original Article 12 December 2019 Pages: 111 - 123
Teaching students with mathematics disabilities to solve multiplication and division word problems: the role of schema-based instruction
Ahmed Alghamdi
Asha K. Jitendra
Amy E. Lein
Original Article 09 August 2019 Pages: 125 - 137
How does imposing a step-by-step solution method impact students’ approach to mathematical word problem solving?
Marie-Pier Goulet-Lyle
Dominic Voyer
Lieven Verschaffel
Original Article 10 October 2019 Pages: 139 - 149
The role of pre-algebraic reasoning within a word-problem intervention for third-grade students with mathematics difficulty
Sarah R. Powell
Katherine A. Berry
Marcia A. Barnes
Original Article 16 September 2019 Pages: 151 - 163
Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in teaching word problem solving strategies
Csaba Csíkos
Judit Szitányi
Original Article Open access 13 December 2019 Pages: 165 - 178