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Kwaku Adu-Gyamfi; Kayla Chandler; Anthony Thompson – School Science and Mathematics, 2025
The challenge posed by algebra story problems creates a significant hurdle for many students, transcending both the mathematical content of the problem and the specific instructional background received. This study offers a distinctive contribution to the existing literature by focusing on the cognitive conditions essential for comprehension in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Barriers, Cognitive Processes
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Reike, Dennis; Schwarz, Wolf – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
The time required to determine the larger of 2 digits decreases with their numerical distance, and, for a given distance, increases with their magnitude (Moyer & Landauer, 1967). One detailed quantitative framework to account for these effects is provided by random walk models. These chronometric models describe how number-related noisy…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns, Numbers, Memory