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Rips, Lance J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
When young children attempt to locate the positions of numerals on a number line, the positions are often logarithmically rather than linearly distributed. This finding has been taken as evidence that the children represent numbers on a mental number line that is logarithmically calibrated. This article reports a statistical simulation showing…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Number Systems, Numbers, Mathematics Education