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Exploring the Impact of Symbol Spacing and Problem Sequencing on Arithmetic Performance: An Educational Data Mining Approach
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Avery H. Closser; Anthony F. Botelho; Jenny Yun-Chen Chan – Journal of Educational Data Mining, 2024
Experimental research on perception and cognition has shown that inherent and manipulated visual features of mathematics problems impact individuals' problem-solving behavior and performance. In a recent study, we manipulated the spacing between symbols in arithmetic expressions to examine its effect on 174 undergraduate students' arithmetic…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Arithmetic, Symbols (Mathematics), Equations (Mathematics)