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  • Open Access
11 Citations
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Measuring Arithmetic Word Problem Complexity through Reading Comprehension and Learning Analytics

  • Maria T. Sanz,
  • Emilia López-Iñesta,
  • Daniel Garcia-Costa and
  • Francisco Grimaldo

10 September 2020

Numerous studies have addressed the relationship between performance in mathematics problem-solving and reading comprehension in students of all educational levels. This work presents a new proposal to measure the complexity of arithmetic word proble...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,657 Views
21 Pages

Arithmetic Word Problems Revisited: Cognitive Processes and Academic Performance in Secondary School

  • Gonzalo Duque de Blas,
  • Isabel Gómez-Veiga and
  • Juan A. García-Madruga

30 March 2021

Solving arithmetic word problems is a complex task that requires individuals to activate their working memory resources, as well as the correct performance of the underlying executive processes involved in order to inhibit semantic biases or superfic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,854 Views
18 Pages

25 June 2022

In this study, we analyze how 9–10-year-old pupils work with equations, a central aspect of algebraic thinking in early grades and a cornerstone for more formal learning of algebra. Specifically, we seek: (a) to describe the main characteristic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,303 Views
13 Pages

12 October 2020

“Number” is an important learning dimension in primary mathematics education. It covers a large proportion of mathematical topics in the primary mathematics curriculum, and teachers use most of their class time to teach fundamental number...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,619 Views
12 Pages

The Effect of Visual Reasoning on Arithmetic Word Problem Solving

  • Ana-Maria Purcar,
  • Mușata Bocoș,
  • Alexandra-Lucia Pop,
  • Alina Roman,
  • Dana Rad,
  • Daniel Mara,
  • Claudia Crișan,
  • Ramona Răduț-Taciu,
  • Elena-Lucia Mara and
  • Dorin-Gheorghe Triff
  • + 9 authors

First-grade students often encounter challenges in understanding and solving arithmetic word problems due to their limited reading comprehension abilities. Despite these difficulties, students may employ arbitrary strategies, such as combining number...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,962 Views
17 Pages

11 September 2024

Developing Arithmetic Word Problem (AWP) -solving algorithms has recently become one of the hottest research areas because it can simultaneously advance general artificial intelligence and the application of AI technology in education. This paper pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,241 Views
18 Pages

The nature of the development of arithmetic performance has long been intensively studied, and available scientific evidence can be evaluated and synthesized in light of Nelson and Narens’ model of metacognition. According to the Nelson–N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,144 Views
32 Pages

A Follow-Up on the Development of Problem-Solving Strategies in a Student with Autism

  • Irene Polo-Blanco,
  • María-José González-López and
  • Raúl Fernández-Cobos

13 October 2025

Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face difficulties in solving arithmetic word problems, particularly in transitioning from informal counting strategies to more efficient methods based on number facts and formal operations. This stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,589 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2022

A math word problems (MWPs) comprises mathematical logic, numbers, and natural language. To solve these problems, a solver model requires an understanding of language and the ability to reason. Since the 1960s, research on the design of a model that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,119 Views
20 Pages

30 September 2021

This paper focuses on difficulties that primary school students have in facing mathematical word problems. In particular, we are interested in exploring how they develop in the transition from grade 2 to grade 5. The research basis of the hypothesis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,804 Views
27 Pages

11 December 2025

Solving algebraic word problems is an essential component of the school mathematics curriculum; nonetheless, many students still make mistakes in solving them. Several studies have largely focused on categorizing errors in solving algebraic word prob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,095 Views
15 Pages

The teaching guides that complement textbooks have key importance in the assessment of competence in problem solving, because these materials contain the assessment tools that teachers frequently use to quantify the achievements of their students. In...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,177 Views
13 Pages

14 November 2023

This study investigated the impact of visual cueing on attention guidance, deep-thinking promotion, and performance optimization in arithmetic word problem solving for students with mathematical learning difficulties (MLD). The participants included...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,546 Views
15 Pages

2 April 2023

Though Chinese word segmentation (CWS) relies heavily on arithmetic power to train huge models and human work to label corpora, models and algorithms are still less accurate, especially for segmentation in a specific domain. In this study, a high-deg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,598 Views
14 Pages

5 February 2022

In this paper, we deal with the critical problems in residue arithmetic. The reverse conversion from a Residue Number System (RNS) to positional notation is a main non-modular operation, and it constitutes a basis of other non-modular procedures used...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,021 Views
15 Pages

17 April 2019

Non-uniquely-decodable (non-UD) codes can be defined as the codes that cannot be uniquely decoded without additional disambiguation information. These are mainly the class of non–prefix–free codes, where a code-word can be a prefix of oth...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,093 Views
29 Pages

An Information Theoretic Condition for Perfect Reconstruction

  • Idris Delsol ,
  • Olivier Rioul ,
  • Julien Béguinot,
  • Victor Rabiet  and
  • Antoine Souloumiac 

19 January 2024

A new information theoretic condition is presented for reconstructing a discrete random variable X based on the knowledge of a set of discrete functions of X. The reconstruction condition is derived from Shannon’s 1953 lattice theory with two e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
4,202 Views
20 Pages

Group Decision-Making Based on m-Polar Fuzzy Linguistic TOPSIS Method

  • Arooj Adeel,
  • Muhammad Akram and
  • Ali N. A. Koam

29 May 2019

The fuzzy linguistic approach provides favorable outputs in several areas, whose description is relatively qualitative. The encouragement for the utilization of sentences or words instead of numbers is that linguistic characterizations or classificat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,842 Views
20 Pages

10 November 2022

Traditional controlled-source audio-frequency magnetotellurics (CSAMT) radiates symmetric beams using a grounded symmetric dipole (GSD). Only a tiny fraction of radiant energy is taken advantage of during the far-field (Ff) observation due to the low...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,689 Views
26 Pages

Diversity-Based Evolutionary Population Dynamics: A New Operator for Grey Wolf Optimizer

  • Farshad Rezaei,
  • Hamid R. Safavi,
  • Mohamed Abd Elaziz,
  • Laith Abualigah,
  • Seyedali Mirjalili and
  • Amir H. Gandomi

6 December 2022

Evolutionary Population Dynamics (EPD) refers to eliminating poor individuals in nature, which is the opposite of survival of the fittest. Although this method can improve the median of the whole population of the meta-heuristic algorithms, it suffer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,217 Views
18 Pages

14 February 2022

The interval multiplicative pairwise comparison matrix (IMPCM) is widely used to model human judgments affected by uncertainty and/or ambiguity. To improve the quality of an IMPCM, consistency is not sufficient. The indeterminacy should also be withi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
676 Views
34 Pages

Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Auto-Generated Chain-of-Thought Traces in Reasoning Models

  • Luis F. Becerra-Monsalve,
  • German Sanchez-Torres and
  • John W. Branch-Bedoya

21 January 2026

Automatically generated chains-of-thought (gCoTs) have become common as large language models adopt deliberative behaviors. Prior work emphasizes fidelity to internal processes, leaving explanatory properties underexplored. Our central hypothesis is...