caa a22 4500 46799739X CHVBK 20180323112600.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19900401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00304900 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00304900 Linguistic and pedagogical factors affecting children's understanding of arithmetic word problems: A comparative study [Elektronische Daten] [Glendon Lean, McKenzie Clements, Gina Del Campo] 2493 children aged from 5 to 15 years in 114 classes in 25 primary schools were asked to do a similar set of 22 arithmetic word problems. 1195 of the children were in Grades K through 6 in Victorian schools (Australia) and 1298 were in Grades 4 through 6 in Papua New Guinea (PNG) schools. For both samples the questions were posed in English. This was the first language for most children in the Victorian sample but, for the PNG sample, English was usually the second, third, or even fourth language (even though it is the language of instruction in PNG schools). While the test instrument was based on widely accepted information processing models of how children solve arithmetic word problems, the data obtained were not so much in accord with these models as with psycholinguistic theories on children's acquisition of polarised comparative pairs (like "more” and "less”). The data also indicate that children from the two samples used similar strategies and made similar errors, with the order of relative difficulty being the same for both samples, the main factor determining difficulty being the semantic structure of the questions. Differences in performance between corresponding grades from the two samples can be attributed to differences in the degree of English language competence rather than to numerical facility. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Lean Glendon Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Private Mail Bag Service, Lae, Papua New Guinea aut Clements McKenzie School of Education, Deakin University, 3217, Geelong, Victoria, Australia aut Del Campo Gina School of Education, Deakin University, 3217, Geelong, Victoria, Australia aut Educational Studies in Mathematics Kluwer Academic Publishers 21/2(1990-04-01), 165-191 0013-1954 21:2<165 1990 21 10649 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304900 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 brief-communication jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00304900 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lean Glendon Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Private Mail Bag Service, Lae, Papua New Guinea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clements McKenzie School of Education, Deakin University, 3217, Geelong, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Del Campo Gina School of Education, Deakin University, 3217, Geelong, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Educational Studies in Mathematics Kluwer Academic Publishers 21/2(1990-04-01), 165-191 0013-1954 21:2<165 1990 21 10649 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer