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  • Mathematics Education
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • Mathematical word problem solving relies on both representational and reading comprehension skills.
  • Realistic Math Education (RME) emphasizes representational skills, potentially neglecting reading comprehension in word problem contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if students educated in RME experience difficulties with semantically complex word problems.
  • To assess the impact of semantic complexity on word problem-solving performance in relation to representational and reading comprehension skills.

Main Methods:

  • Studied 80 sixth-grade students categorized by math performance.
  • Administered word problems varying in semantic complexity, assessing both representational and reading comprehension abilities.

Main Results:

  • Even high-achieving students demonstrated poor performance on semantically complex word problems.
  • Performance was adequate on less complex problems, indicating a specific deficit with semantic challenges.

Conclusions:

  • Reading comprehension skills appear to be underdeveloped in RME curricula for word problem solving.
  • RME instruction should integrate reading comprehension more prominently to improve overall word problem-solving success.