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Ngo, Vy; Perez Lacera, Luisa; Closser, Avery Harrison; Ottmar, Erin – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023
For students to advance beyond arithmetic, they must learn how to attend to the structure of math notation. This process can be challenging due to students' left-to-right computing tendencies. Brackets are used in mathematics to indicate precedence but can also be used as superfluous cues and perceptual grouping mechanisms in instructional…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Arithmetic, Symbols (Mathematics), Computation
Eley, Jonquille – Online Submission, 2009
Sixth grade students come to MS 331 with strong mathematics backgrounds from elementary school. Nevertheless, students often come with a dearth of skills when performing basic math computations. The focus of this study is to investigate the use of the 24 Game in quickening the ability of sixth graders to perform basic computations. The game…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Arithmetic, Educational Games, Recall (Psychology)
Hartlep, Nicholas D. – Online Submission, 2008
The effects of using homework guides, and homework logs on students' abilities to solve word problems involving basic addition and subtraction facts were studied. Students received one of three versions of addition and subtraction timed tests once per week--every Thursday--that focused on measuring automaticity of basic addition and subtraction…
Descriptors: Homework, Timed Tests, Word Problems (Mathematics), Subtraction
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Maertens, Norbert – Arithmetic Teacher, 1969
Descriptors: Achievement, Arithmetic, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Mathematics