From Words to Equations Meaning and Representation in Algebra Word Problems

By D. A. Hinsley, J. Hayes, Herbert A. Simon. 2012

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The Import of Knowledge Export: Connecting Findings and Theories of Transfer of Learning (2012, background): “The researchers found that students’ performance was impaired when the problems involved content that was typically associated with a different type of solution formula (also see Bassok, Wu, & Olseth, 1995 ; Hinsley, Hayes, & Simon, 1978 ).”
Learning To Use Formulas To Solve Simple Arithmetic Problems (2016, background): “…have studied math word problem in a constrained domain by either limiting the input sentences to ﬁxed set of patterns (Bobrow, 1964b; Bobrow, 1964a; Hinsley et al., 1977) or by directly operating on a propositional representation instead of a natural language text (Kintsch and Greeno, 1985;…”