A Study of Students' Strategies to Solve Mathematical Problems : Application of the Thinking Aloud Method to Word Problems' Solution

Abstract

In this paper, the following results are known in consequence of classifying and comparing sixth grade student' strategies to solve word problems in mathematics. 1 Strategies are formed hierarchically from synthetic to concrete. 2 Students with high academic achievement use many strategies to solve problems, but students with low academic achievementuse do few ones. 3 Students use many strategies to solve moderately difficult problems.