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Liu, Qiushan; Braithwaite, David – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Rational numbers are represented by multiple notations: fractions, decimals, and percentages. Whereas previous studies have investigated affordances of these notations for representing different types of information (DeWolf et al., 2015; Tian et al., 2020), the present study investigated their affordances for solving different types of arithmetic…
Descriptors: Fractions, Arithmetic, Mathematical Concepts, Affordances
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Grabner, Roland H.; Brunner, Clemens; Lorenz, Valerie; Vogel, Stephan E.; De Smedt, Bert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2022
There is broad consensus on the assumption that adults solve single-digit multiplication problems almost exclusively by fact retrieval from memory. In contrast, there has been a long-standing debate on the cognitive processes involved in solving single-digit addition problems. This debate has evolved around two theoretical accounts. Proponents of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Addition, Computation, Arithmetic