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Peer reviewedDover, Arlene; Shore, Bruce M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1991
Nineteen gifted students and 11 average students, age 11, completed Einstellung Test problems and were queried about their metacognitive knowledge. A three-way interaction among giftedness, speed, and flexibility was found, with metacognitive knowledge as the criterion. Regardless of speed, inflexible children had less metacognitive knowledge than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Gifted, Interaction
Peer reviewedMiller, April D.; Heward, William L. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1992
This article offers guidelines for using timed drills to achieve computational fluency in elementary students. It considers the acquisition and practice stages of learning, setting fluency aims and objectives, measuring fluency, research supporting time trials, how to do time trials, and 11 specific guidelines for conducting time trials. (DB)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Techniques, Computation, Drills (Practice)
Download full textLeFevre, Jo-Anne; Bisanz, Jeffrey – 1987
To determine whether children's knowledge of arithmetic facts becomes increasingly "automatic" with age, 7-year-olds, 11-year-olds, and adults were given a number-matching task for which mental arithmetic should have been irrelevant. Specifically, students were required to verify the presence of a probe number in a previously presented pair (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
