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Omanson, Susan F.; And Others – 1982
This study was designed to follow up earlier work on mapping instruction. The two main goals were to: (1) test the effectiveness of mapping instruction as a general cure for "buggy" subtraction algorithms, and (2) explore two alternative explanations of how this new form of instruction works. It was hypothesized that mapping cures bugs…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, Computation