{"title":"It’s just a state of mind: The effect of deliberate and implemental mindset states on word-problem solving","authors":"Benjamin Rott , Timo Leuders","doi":"10.1016/j.jmathb.2024.101230","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we draw on the distinction of states and traits to investigate the influence of humor and awareness prompts on solving word problems with a reflective component. Two studies with n = 144 and n = 401 mathematics pre-service teachers were conducted, using the three-item Cognitive Reflection test and a ten-item test on mathematical critical thinking, respectively. In both studies, students seeing jokes or awareness prompts showed significantly better results than students solving routine tasks before working on the test items. Drawing on the mindset theory by Gollwitzer, we explain these results with deliberate and implemental mindsets being induced by humoristic and awareness prompts prompts or routine tasks, respectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47481,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mathematical Behavior","volume":"78 ","pages":"Article 101230"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Mathematical Behavior","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S073231232400107X","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this paper, we draw on the distinction of states and traits to investigate the influence of humor and awareness prompts on solving word problems with a reflective component. Two studies with n = 144 and n = 401 mathematics pre-service teachers were conducted, using the three-item Cognitive Reflection test and a ten-item test on mathematical critical thinking, respectively. In both studies, students seeing jokes or awareness prompts showed significantly better results than students solving routine tasks before working on the test items. Drawing on the mindset theory by Gollwitzer, we explain these results with deliberate and implemental mindsets being induced by humoristic and awareness prompts prompts or routine tasks, respectively.
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The Journal of Mathematical Behavior solicits original research on the learning and teaching of mathematics. We are interested especially in basic research, research that aims to clarify, in detail and depth, how mathematical ideas develop in learners. Over three decades, our experience confirms a founding premise of this journal: that mathematical thinking, hence mathematics learning as a social enterprise, is special. It is special because mathematics is special, both logically and psychologically. Logically, through the way that mathematical ideas and methods have been built, refined and organized for centuries across a range of cultures; and psychologically, through the variety of ways people today, in many walks of life, make sense of mathematics, develop it, make it their own.
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