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Lockwood, Elise; Purdy, Branwen – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2020
The multiplication principle (MP) is a fundamental aspect of combinatorial enumeration. In an effort to better understand students' reasoning about the MP, we had two undergraduate students reinvent a statement of the MP in a teaching experiment. In this paper, we adopt an actor-oriented perspective (Lobato, "Educational Researcher,"…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Undergraduate Students
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Ip, Martin Ho Kwan; Imuta, Kana; Slaughter, Virginia – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Correct counting respects the stable order principle whereby the count terms are recited in a fixed order every time. The 4 experiments reported here tested whether precounting infants recognize and prefer correct stable-ordered counting. The authors introduced a novel preference paradigm in which infants could freely press two buttons to activate…
Descriptors: Preferences, Serial Ordering, Computation, Infants