{"id":7409,"date":"2018-11-27T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/dtu-calidie-lectures-in-multilingualism-and-learning-making-sense-of-word-problems\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T13:48:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T12:48:59","slug":"dtu-calidie-lectures-in-multilingualism-and-learning-making-sense-of-word-problems","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fr\/events\/dtu-calidie-lectures-in-multilingualism-and-learning-making-sense-of-word-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"DTU CALIDIE Lectures in Multilingualism and Learning: Making Sense of Word Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\"><p>Mathematics provides a set of tools for describing, analyzing, and predicting real world situations. One of the major ways in which this \u201capplication\u201d function is taught at school is by means of word problems. However, research points to a large variety of difficulties that appear when learners solve word problems. Many of these difficulties do not relate to learners\u2019 mastery of the mathematical concepts and procedures that are involved, but rather by the way they interpret word problems as a specific \u201ctext genre\u201d in which specific expectations hold regarding the ways in which they need to be solved, the information that can and cannot be used, etcetera. In this lecture, I will address several of these difficulties, using examples from learners of a large age range, and show which research-based explanations are available for them.<\/p><p><strong>Dr Wim Van Dooren<\/strong> is Associate Professor at the Centre Instructional Psychology and Technology at KU Leuven (Belgium). His research focuses on mathematical thinking and problem solving in a broad age range (from kindergartners over preservice teachers to mathematical experts) in various topics (word problems, geometry, arithmetic, probability, statistics, and some physics). His research is situated at the intertwining of mathematics education and cognitive and educational psychology. In a lot of his research, the tasks are presented as word problems, which are a specific text genre, raising specific challenges for learning and instruction.<\/p><p>CONTACT: <a href=\"mailto:peter.voss@uni.lu\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">peter.voss@uni.lu<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dtucalidie.uni.lu\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/dtucalidie.uni.lu<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7410,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2018-11-28 17:00:00","event_end_date":"2018-11-28 18:30:00","event_speaker_name":"Prof. Wim Van Dooren, KU Leuven","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Campus Belval, Maison du Savoir, room 4.150","event_street":"","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"","event_city":"","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[312],"events-type":[],"organisation":[147,226],"authorship":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DTU CALIDIE Lectures in Multilingualism and Learning: Making Sense of Word Problems - Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mathematics provides a set of tools for describing, analyzing, and predicting real world situations. 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