Running head: PROBLEM SOLVING IN THE CLASSROOM

Linchevski and Williams found that this first program was fairly successful in fostering a general concept of negative numbers in their students, but there was not a simultaneous development of mathematical language around negative numbers (i.e., students talked about “ins” and “outs” instead of “positives” or “negatives”). ................
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