Learning Support for School Children with Math Diffi culties: How to improve the ability to solve math word problems and self-efficacy

This case study focused on the acquisition of an appropriate problem-solving strategy. Learning support based on cognitive counseling was carried out with a sixth grade elementary school child who had difficulty solving math word problems. As a result of the cognitive counseling sessions, he can now constitute a mental model from sentences using diagrams. His self-efficacy for mathematics was also enhanced