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Despina Desli; Panagiotis Dimitropoulos – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
The present study aimed to examine children's and adults' performance and strategies in volume estimations. Three tasks were designed and presented to 40 adults and 40 6th grade children who were asked to estimate: (a) the number of unit measures (bricks/rice spoons) that may be put in a container, (b) the quantity of bricks/rice, between two…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 6, Elementary School Students, Measurement
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Carter, Philip; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1983
Two experiments studied nine-year-olds, l3-year-olds, and adults in their encoding of two kinds of stimuli taken from a psychometric measure of spatial aptitude. The first experiment used letter-like stimuli; the second employed multi-element flags. (CI)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Algorithms, Children