Students also tend to choose an operation by solely relying on key words that they believe will help them arrive at an answer, which without careful consideration of what the problem is actually asking of them. Many students often pluck numbers from the problem and plug them into an equation using the first operation they can think of (or the last one they practiced). Students must understand the mathematics of a situation to know what computation will lead to an appropriate solution. Solving problems is about more than computation.
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