“The first thing I ask myself when I try to solve word probl…
“The first thing I ask myself when I try to solve word problems,” Liam Johnson, a math teacher, comments to his students as he displays a word problem on the board, “is ‘what is the problem asking for,’ and then, if possible, I try to draw a diagram or picture of the problem to help me visualize the problem.” Of the following, the suggestion for applying information processing with students that Liam is best demonstrating is: