PROBLEM SOLVING IN SCHOOL MATHEMATICS BASED ON HEURISTIC STRATEGIES

By Jarmila Novotná, Petr Eisenmann, J. Přibyl, Jiřina Ondrušová, Jiří Břehovský. 2014

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The paper describes one of the ways of developing pupils’ creative approach to problem solving. The described experiment is a part of a longitudinal research focusing on improvement of culture of problem solving by pupils. It deals with solving of problems using the following heuristic strategies: Analogy, Guess – check – revise, Systematic experimentation, Problem reformulation, Solution drawing, Way back and Use of graphs of functions. Most attention is paid to the question whether short-term work, in this case only over the period of three months, can result in improvement of pupils’ abilities to solve problems whose solving algorithms are easily accessible. It also answers the question which strategies pupils will prefer and with what results. The experiment shows that even short-term work can bear positive results as far as pupils’ approach to problem solving is concerned.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Statistics and Probability

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f44c67ae2668bd31f2eb19f0ff1b76ff4b11a955

Citations in the corpus

• Mathematical Problem-Solving Strategies among Student Teachers. (2018, unknown): “Mathematical problem-solving may help students to improve and develop the standard ability to solve real-life problems, (Reys et al. 2001), to develop critical thinking skills and reasoning, to gain deep understanding of concepts (Schoenfeld, 1992; Schoen and Charles, 2003) and to work in groups, co”