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Idea Bank: “Show-that”—A Better Framework for Problem Solving

The Science Teacher—February 2008

“Show-that” problems provide the answer in the form of an equation in the question itself—which changes the goal from finding a number to showing the reasoning behind the answer. Is that not what problem solving should be about? The following series of problems illustrate the “show-that” framework.
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