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A great amount of elementary students encounter failure to solve mathematical problems because they cannot understand the meanings of the problems. As indicated, problem-solving is the core of the mathematics curriculum. Thus, students need to develop reading comprehension ability to solve mathematics problems. The teach-back is a constructive method that can help students present the understanding of a certain topic through dialogues. This study investigated the effects of the teach-back approach, exploring elementary students’ mathematics learning efficacy of problem-solving and attitudes towards an interactive learning platform, HiTeach. The participants in this study were six-graders from a public school in Taiwan. There were twenty-four participants in the experimental group and twenty-four participants in the control group. The results indicated that students in the teach-back approach group performed better than those in the traditional collaborative group. Moreover, the teach-back approach helped students in comprehending the meaning of questions in problem-solving.
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Tung, Cl., Chou, Ch., Yang, Sj., Lin, Cp. (2020). Applying the Teach-Back Method and Mobile Technology to Support Elementary Students’ Mathematics Problem-Solving Strategies. In: Popescu, E., Hao, T., Hsu, TC., Xie, H., Temperini, M., Chen, W. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11984. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38778-5_2
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