In the video above, the MinutePhysics team demonstrates how addition can be used to solve subtraction problems. It requires budding modular mathematicians to perform some simple subtraction ...

While the value of 'schematic representations' in problem solving requires no further demonstration, the way in which students should be taught how to construct these representations invariably gives ...

Swee Fong Ng, Kerry Lee, The Model Method: Singapore Children's Tool for Representing and Solving Algebraic Word Problems, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 40, No. 3 (May, 2009), pp ...