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Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina M.; Xu, Chang; Li, Hongxia; Si, Jiwei; LeFevre, Jo-Anne; Wang, Yangyang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Background: Mapping fraction symbols to magnitudes is easier for students to master than comparing fraction magnitudes. Fraction mapping assesses students' understanding of part-whole interpretations of fractions; fractions represent the parts of an object or set of objects. Fraction comparison assesses students' understanding of measurement…
Descriptors: Fractions, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics, Elementary School Students
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Dewi, Jasinta D. M.; Bagnoud, Jeanne; Thevenot, Catherine – Cognitive Science, 2021
As a theory of skill acquisition, the instance theory of automatization posits that, after a period of training, algorithm-based performance is replaced by retrieval-based performance. This theory has been tested using alphabet-arithmetic verification tasks (e.g., is A + 4 = E?), in which the equations are necessarily solved by counting at the…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Training, Task Analysis, Learning Theories