
Vol. 10 #4 Beyond Key Words: The Use of Schemas to Solve Word Problems and Promote Conceptual Unders
Beyond Key Words: The Use of Schemas to Solve Word Problems and Promote Conceptual Understanding Joan Gujarati, Ed.D. Walk into any elementary school classroom during mathematics instruction and chances are that you will see students presented with some type of word or story problem to solve given the importance of problem-solving in today’s mathematics classrooms (CCSSO, 2010; NCTM, 2014). Not only do computation