PSY 124 Lecture 5: Psychology of Subject Matter - Math
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Introduction: what do you need to know in order to solve this problem, at arco, gas costs . 13 per gallon. This is 5 cents less than gas at chevron. If you want to buy 5 gallons of gas, how much will you pay at chevron. Beliefs (having confidence in math in order to be motivated to keep trying) Riley, heller, greeno: method: listen to this problem and repeat it back to me: jane has three marbles. How many marbles does sue have? marbles does sue have? : the most common error is jane has three marbles. How many: students have difficulty with representing relational statements. She has saved as much as james saved. James has been saving for his vacation for six months. 16% to 9% for control group: error rate on similar problems drop from 15% to 2% for trained group and falls from, training in problem translation results in improvements in solving word problems.
