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McNeil, Nicole M.; Fyfe, Emily R.; Petersen, Lori A.; Dunwiddie, April E.; Brletic-Shipley, Heather – Child Development, 2011
This study examined whether practice with arithmetic problems presented in a nontraditional problem format improves understanding of mathematical equivalence. Children (M age = 8;0; N = 90) were randomly assigned to practice addition in one of three conditions: (a) traditional, in which problems were presented in the traditional "operations…
Descriptors: Fundamental Concepts, Arithmetic, Equations (Mathematics), Mathematics Skills
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Fujimura, Nobuyuki – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
One hundred forty fourth graders were asked to solve proportion problems about juice-mixing situations both before and after an intervention that used a manipulative model or other materials in three experiments. Results indicate different approaches appear to be necessary to facilitate children's proportional reasoning, depending on the reasoning…
Descriptors: Children, Fundamental Concepts, Grade 4, Individual Differences