In an experiment, the discovery learning group of students was encouraged to see that a "piece" of parallelogram could be "moved" to create a rectangle,
while the rote learning group memorized the height times base formula.
The results of the experiment demonstrated that
a. the discovery learning group performed better on the unusual problems.
b. the rote learning group performed better on the unusual problems.
c. both groups performed exceptionally well on the unusual problems.
d. both groups performed poorly on the unusual problems.
ANSWER: a
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