Impact of linguistic aspects of mathematical word problems on the quality of pupil's solutions

Abstract

The article presents the research project postgraduate student's of Didactics of Czech language called Reading Comprehension as a prerequisite for a successful strategy of word problems solving in math. It defines the research topic of this project, objectives, methods and presents the first results of it.

Keywords

• reading comprehension
• linguistic attributes of the text
• math word problems
• difficult linguistic phenomena
• reformulation