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Peer reviewedLeFevre, Jo-Anne; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1991
Children in grades three through five and adults performed a number-matching task. Found that changes in the strength of arithmetic connections occurred with development and accounted for individual differences among adults. Individual differences among children were related to changes in the strength of number-line connections. (Author/GLR)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, College Students, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedNesher, P.; And Others – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1982
Research conducted in several countries has shown consistent patterns of performance on "change,""combine," and "compare" word problems involving addition and subtraction. These findings are interpreted within a theoretical framework which emphasizes development of levels of word problem-solving ability related to…
Descriptors: Addition, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Computation
Download full textMiller, Kevin; Gelman, Rochel – 1982
In order to describe developments in children's conceptions of numbers and numerical relations, judgments of similarities between numbers were solicited from adults and from children in kindergarten and grades 3 and 6. A nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis suggested that children gradually become sensitive to an expanding set of numerical…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes
