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My Thesis Schema-Based Instruction (SBI): in Improving Students’ Ability to Solve Math Word Problems
I haven’t been posting here in a long time because this year I finished my thesis for graduate school. I haven’t graduated from school for 15 years studying education. After a fifteen-year journey, I have finally reached the culmination of my graduate studies, a period marked by both academic pursuit and significant life events. Throughout this extended period of dedication, I successfully earned…
My Thesis Schema-Based Instruction (SBI): in Improving Students’ Ability to Solve Math Word Problems
I haven’t been posting here in a long time because this year I finished my thesis for graduate school. I haven’t graduated from school for 15 years studying education. After a fifteen-year journey, I have finally reached the culmination of my graduate studies, a period marked by both academic pursuit and significant life events. Throughout this extended period of dedication, I successfully earned…
So true, I remember those crazy math problems!
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So, I've come up with a thing, and it infuriates me, it delights me, it intrigues me, it wraps me in, pulls me closer, and stabs me in my heart. It is a thing that brings me joy and suffering, so I ask now that you join me in the joy and suffering of it, the idea behind it, and the possibilities it brings, but first, let me explain.
I teach math at a college and in order to be able to do so, I have studied math for some time (with my massive executive function issues, the time between me entering college the first time and getting my master's degree was 17.5 years). And the math I enjoyed studying the most has always been the most abstract math I could find and I have a fondness for discrete sets (especially finite ones). In other words, the math I like is that pure math that is beautiful and useless. I would love to teach a course on recreational math where we study logic problems and cryptograms and jumbles and the other things you find in the puzzle books by the checkout line. But funding and interest tends to go more towards classes that people need to take for engineering or nursing or computer science or doing business.
So I came up with a math word problem. I love it because the way to solve it is great, and I hate it because it is so obviously contrived and ruins the purity of the field and who would do this. If we take recreational math seriously, we can come up with so many new techniques and theorems of amazing beauty and build all of what I love about math, but at the same time, if we take it seriously, then we invite serious people like investors and and people working in the field and of course those that want to use our results to maximise the number of bombs per minute they can drop on childrens' heads to do more colonialism, so we risk killing the fun, and I want to teach fun math, for people to have fun and do good. You get what I'm saying.
So here is the problem: Mary Stu is in charge of testing and picking the design for a new type of widget. There are 9 variations on the design, it can be made in any of nine different steel alloys, and there are 8 approved colors of paint that could be used, or it could remain unpainted. They have 9 days to complete the project and want to equalize the number of samples they want to test each day as well as the number of each color, design, and material. [add additional restaints]. How many different designs should they order in for testing and which designs should they test each day?