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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Not sure what quantitative math field you are in.

Regardless, here is a generalization.  
- Quantities that in a math problem can either be unknown or known regardless of apple/orange/fish/airplane.  
- Processes are series of events/states regardless of Morning/Afternoon/at home/on buses/in school/with President/in a basket.

Mapping unknown/known quantities and processes to real life examples can be a subject within the field of applied math.  However, most of time, mapping resides in other disciplines, i.e. physics, economics, etc.

Now, keeping apples/morning/afternoon in your solution is not quite a math way unless you want to confuse people particularly kids.  Since if you switch apple to pear, morning/afternoon to at market a/b, kids will ask you for another "same" solution.

Keeping too much language aspects in earlier math material can potential slow down the development of the sense of math [b]abstraction [/b] in kids' brain.  
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This was a word problem from Singapore Math 5. Are you saying that Singapore Math is doing it wrong? Too much language? They don't understand math?[/quote]

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