2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.09.010
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POETIC: Interactive solutions to alleviate the reversal error in student–professor type problems

Abstract: The reversal error-reversing the relationship between two variables in a mathematical word problem-is a long-standing issue in mathematics education, despite its apparent simplicity. In this paper, we describe and study POETIC, an interactive web-based environment we developed to teach users to avoid the reversal error.POETIC uses two types of novel interactive visualization, called the Test-Case and Room-Metaphor approaches. To verify the effectiveness of these approaches, we conducted crowdsourcing-based com… Show more

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“…This tendency has been identified in studies with students who speak English (e.g. Cohen & Kanin, 2005;Fisher et al, 2011;Sung et al, 2014) and those who speak Spanish (González-Calero et al, 2015;González-Calero et al, 2020;Soneira et al, 2018). Our study now extends this result to students who speak isiZulu.…”
Section: Discussion and Concluding Remarkssupporting
confidence: 84%
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“…This tendency has been identified in studies with students who speak English (e.g. Cohen & Kanin, 2005;Fisher et al, 2011;Sung et al, 2014) and those who speak Spanish (González-Calero et al, 2015;González-Calero et al, 2020;Soneira et al, 2018). Our study now extends this result to students who speak isiZulu.…”
Section: Discussion and Concluding Remarkssupporting
confidence: 84%
“…On the one hand, when first introducing the algebraic language in Spanish schools, the study suggests that teachers need to highlight the meaning of the equal sign as an algebraic equivalence instead of correspondence, and the fact that letters represent quantities instead of being labels for objects. This would be so because these aspects have been proposed as the reasoning underlying the use of the static comparison strategy (Clement, 1982;Cohen & Kanim, 2005;Fisher, 1988;González-Calero et al 2020;Soneira et al, 2018;Sung-Hee et al, 2014). Teachers in Spain need to pay attention to the tendency to keep the structure or the visual display of the sentences in natural language when expressing them as equations, as this would underlie the use of the word order matching strategy (Clement, 1982;Fisher et al, 2011;Landy et al, 2014).…”
Section: Discussion and Concluding Remarksmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Visualization tools have been used to educate audiences on complex topics in fields as diverse as Mathematics [22] and Nanoscience [29]. Others have used visualization to improve the teaching of various computer science topics.…”
Section: Computing Visualization For Educationmentioning
confidence: 99%