Reading and Calculating in Word Problem Solving

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Authors

  • Anselm R. Strohmaier
  • Christian Schons
  • Alina Knabbe
  • Markus Vogel
Word problem solving combines linguistic and mathematical processes, including
reading and calculating. However, it is still unclear how strongly these processes
overlap, e.g., if calculations occur parallel or serially during reading. Also, it is unclear
how much the mental representation created during reading and the mental
representation in which calculations are integrated (e.g., Thevenot et al., 2007). In the
present study, we present data from an experiment that investigated the overlap
between reading and calculating based on the observation of eye movements during
word problem solving.
We systematically varied three-line word problems by manipulating a) the lexical
difficulty of two words which were irrelevant for calculations and b) the numerical
difficulty of the word problem which was irrelevant for reading. We analyzed the mean
fixation duration, which can be interpreted as an indicator for the cognitive effort
during processing of visual information (Strohmaier et al., 2020). If processes of
reading and calculating occur serially and in delimited mental representations, the
manipulation should only affect the mean fixation duration of the varied words and
numbers.
Analyses of the pilot data from N = 17 undergraduate students show that numerical
difficulty influences the mean fixation duration on numbers, but also on the remaining
text. Effects of lexical difficulty showed similar trends, but were not significant.
Based on these results and additional data, we argue that eye movements indicate that
cognitive processes of reading and calculating overlap during word problem solving
and occur in a shared mental representation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceeding of the 46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 1)
EditorsMichal Ayalon, Boris Koichu, Roza Leikin, Laurie Rubel, Michal Tabach
Number of pages1
Volume1
Place of PublicationHaifa, Israel
PublisherUniversity of Haifa
Publication date2023
Pages333
ISBN (print)978-965-93112-1-7
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education - PME 2023: Volume 3 - University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Duration: 16.07.202321.07.2023
Conference number: 46
https://www.igpme.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PME-46-Vol-3-RR_H-O-1.pdf
https://pme46.edu.haifa.ac.il

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