The performance of Finnish adolescents in mathematics had dropped from the very high-end to 12th place. It started a discussion on bringing back the importance of motivation and “fun” in learning ...

Problem-solving skills of students are indicators of their intellectual behavior, and they determine higher-order thinking skills that students need to master. One of the approaches to improving ...

A member of our research community, Terhi Vessonen and her co-authors, looked into how different characteristics of mathematical word problem-solving tasks may influence elementary schooler’s ...

In a recent study from our research group, we looked into how different characteristics of mathematical word problem-solving tasks may influence elementary schooler’s performance. Mathematical word ...

1 Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute of Mathematics Education, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany 2 Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany In this ...

A country’s entire economy and growth revolves around different aspects of mathematics. The role of mathematics in national, regional and international developments has become more evident in ...