Why TAPS? You really can study “Smarter, not Harder: The Reflection Effect”
But OTA Students Do… So Let’s Get Started!
Job One when you tackle a Word Problem:
- Translating the English Language (Nouns, Pronouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Prepositions, Exclamations)
into the →
- Language of Mathematics (4 Operations, Whole Numbers, Fractions, Decimal-Fractions, Integers (negative & positive numbers), Percents, Equations, Shapes, Angles, Graphs, and Statistics)
Some Tools to Help You Translate English → Math:
Phrases Found in Word Problems and the Four Operations of Arithmetic
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What are the Goals of ThatQuiz & TAPS (Think Aloud Problem Solving)?