Researchers have also studied the ways students learn to problem-solve. The intent was to formulate a concise procedure for the students to follow so that the difficulties could be lessened and eventually completely eliminated.
Studies show that none of the methods stands out as best and that all yield acceptable results.
A few of them are related below. He also reported that the students used the calculators as a monitoring aid while solving word problems. However, the scores were not significantly higher for those students than their counterparts who did not use a calculator. The volume of research has prompted responses from many sources. The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics devoted its 1980 Yearbook to Problem Solving in School Mathematics.