Suppose That Several High School Algebra Teachers Are Trying to Encourage

question 52

Multiple Choice

Suppose that several high school algebra teachers are trying to encourage their students to use analogies more appropriately when they try to solve word problems. The teachers should instruct students

• A) to make an educated guess about the answer before trying to solve it.
• B) to make a matrix that shows the surface similarities between a current problem and a previous problem.
• C) to sort a number of problems into categories, based on structural similarities.
• D) to use the hill-climbing heuristic.

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