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Lóa Björk Jóelsdóttir; Pernille Bødtker Sunde; Peter Sunde; Paul Andrews – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2024
Motivated by a curriculum privileging number-based strategies but national tests highlighting students' reliance on standard algorithms, this study analyses 2,216 Danish Grade 3, 6 and 8 students' solutions to various multidigit arithmetic tasks, each designed to elicit shortcut strategies, against background variables including sex, ethnicity and…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Bull, Rebecca; Davidson, Wendy Anne; Nordmann, Emily – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Lateralization of the brain is strongly influenced by prenatal androgens, with differential exposure thought to account for cognitive sex differences. This study investigated sex and individual differences and relationships between 2D:4D (the ratio of the 2nd to 4th digit [digit ratio] as a proxy indicator of prenatal testosterone exposure),…
Descriptors: Females, Memory, Spatial Ability, Arithmetic