Papers by christian francis cequina
In this study of my fifth grade mathematics class, I investigated how the use of different readin... more In this study of my fifth grade mathematics class, I investigated how the use of different reading strategies impacted my students' problem solving. I implemented various reading strategies throughout a three-month time period. Teaching my students to break down story problems, learn the steps in solving them, write their own story problems, create math dictionaries, write story problem webs, and listen to themselves reading problems created more confidence in them and increased the likelihood that they would use these strategies on their own. In this research, it was quite obvious to me through some pretesting that my students struggled with word problems. As a result of this research, I found that I was able to help some individuals improve on their abilities to focus on and solve word problems by implementing reading strategies. As a result of my study, I plan to keep implementing these strategies into my lesson plans and keep reading strategies and problem solving a focus of my mathematics classroom.
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Papers by christian francis cequina