Author Question: Asking high-school students to solve authentic math problems, such as how many gallons of water are ... (Read 703 times)

viki · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Asking high-school students to solve authentic math problems, such as how many gallons of water are needed to fill a fishtank with a small leak, is a useful strategy to help them overcome the common misconception that:

a. students who aren't born with a genetic gift for math will always struggle.
b. mathematics is useful only for people who want careers that require number-crunching.
c. understanding proportions and abstract concepts is too difficult for most adolescents.
d. there's only one way to solve any particular math problem.

Question 2

Edward is severely beaten by his alcoholic father on several occasions. Before long, Edward begins to shake whenever his father approaches. In this situation, Edward's father is:

a. an unconditioned stimulus.
b. a conditioned stimulus.
c. an unconditioned response.
d. a conditioned response.