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Peterson, Susan K.; And Others – 1987
This study compared the acquisition of an initial place value skill when presented in a concrete, semiconcrete, abstract teaching sequence to acquisition of the same skill when presented at the abstract level only. The 24 subjects were elementary and middle school students (ages 8-13) with learning disabilities who were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Educational Principles