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Céline Poletti; Marie Krenger; Marie Létang; Brune Hennequin; Catherine Thevenot – Child Development, 2025
Our study on 328 five- to six-year-old kindergarteners (mainly White European living in France, 152 girls) shows that children who do not count on their fingers and undergo finger counting training exhibit drastic improvement in their addition skills from pre-test to post-test (i.e., accuracy from 37.3% to 77.1%) compared to a passive control…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills
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Inés Gallego-Sánchez; Verónica Martín-Molina; Isabel Caro-Torró; José María Gavilán-Izquierdo – Education 3-13, 2025
Our work investigated how six primary school students used a non-traditional method for adding and subtracting: the ABN method, a Spanish acronym for Open (method) Based on Numbers. Commognitive theory [Sfard, A. 2008. "Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing." New York: Cambridge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Addition, Subtraction
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Camilo Andrés Rodríguez-Nieto; José David Cabarcas-Jiménez; Adriana Lucía Sarmiento-Reales; Benilda María Cantillo-Rudas; Jesús David Berrio-Valbuena; Sudirman Sudirman; Angela Castro Inostroza – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
The level of arithmetic knowledge of a high school student was explored when solving additive word problems considering the semantic structure and syntactic component. The methodology was qualitative and developed in four stages: the first is the selection of the participant, the second is the design of a questionnaire with twenty additive…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Addition
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Corin D. Mathews – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2025
Background: Base-ten thinking (BTT) -- children's ability to reason in tens and ones is a crucial measure of Foundation Phase learners' mathematical performance in South Africa. Aim: The study looks at the six learners using BTT to solve additive tasks through two different assessments. Setting: Six purposely selected Grade 3 learners in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Task Analysis, High Achievement, Low Achievement