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Rethinking the Approach to Multi-step Word Problems Resolution

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Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST 2023)

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Mathematical multi-step word problems (MSTWP) have received a lot of research attention from academics and researchers in the past, and a variety of solutions have been offered. The main reason why students commonly fail with MSTWP is because of how the many components of an MSTWP interact to one another. According to the literature, the stage of the problem-solving process that involves creating the solution plane is the most challenging. Students require assistance in recognizing the semantic relationships between the problem's components and information organization to facilitate problem translation and solution in order to solve this issue.

In order to help students learn how to resolve conflicts, we suggest in this work to rethink the MSTWP resolution technique by using a goal-driven approach during the making plan stage of the resolution process to assist student in learning how to effectively solve MSTWP.

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  1. University Ibn Khaldoun of Tiaret, Tiaret, Algeria

    Abdelhafid Chadli, Abdelkader Ouared, Mohamed Goismi & Abdelkader Chenine

  2. LIS–Aix Marseille Université, Marseille, France

    Erwan Tranvouez

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  1. ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Cávado, Portugal

    Alvaro Rocha

  2. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Institute of Data Science and Digital Technologies, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Gintautas Dzemyda

  4. DCT, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal

    Fernando Moreira

  5. TeCIP Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

    Valentina Colla

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Chadli, A., Tranvouez, E., Ouared, A., Goismi, M., Chenine, A. (2024). Rethinking the Approach to Multi-step Word Problems Resolution. In: Rocha, A., Adeli, H., Dzemyda, G., Moreira, F., Colla, V. (eds) Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 800. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45645-9_34

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