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For questions about the mathematical education in the first years in school (ages approx. 5-10).

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What value is there in requiring students to declare the dimensions of an answer when it is ...

When I was in late primary and middle school (east coast US, early 1990's), we were assigned a lot of word problems of the following general form: Mary has eight self-sealing stem bolts. She sells ha …
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What value is there in requiring students to answer word problems in complete sentences?

This is related to my previous question What value is there in requiring students to declare the dimensions of an answer when it is already clear from context? , but with a different focus. A sizeable …
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