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Baroody, Arthur J.; Gannon, Kathleen E. – 1983
Addition strategies used by 36 kindergarten children were examined. Children were given written stimuli (such as "2+5" and "3+7") during two sessions taking place a week apart. Results indicated that once children came to rely on mental addition strategies, they often quickly invented more economical procedures to compute sums. Also confirmed was…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Instruction

Zalewski, Donald L. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1974
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking, Elementary School Mathematics