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Degrande, Tine; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2017
In contrast to previous studies on Spontaneous Focusing on Quantitative Relations (SFOR), the present study investigated not only the "extent" to which children focus on (multiplicative) quantitative relations, but also the "nature" of children's quantitative focus (i.e., the types of quantitative relations that children focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6
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Attout, Lucie; Noël, Marie-Pascale; Majerus, Steve – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Despite numerous studies, the link between verbal working memory (WM) and calculation abilities remains poorly understood. The present longitudinal study focuses specifically on the role of serial order retention capacities, based on recent findings suggesting a link between ordinal processing in verbal WM and numerical processing tasks. Children…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Computation, Longitudinal Studies, Cognitive Processes
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Luwel, Koen; Verschaffel, Lieven – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
Groups of mathematically strong and weak second-, fourth- and sixth-graders were individually confronted with numerosities smaller and larger than 100 embedded in one-, two- or three-dimensional realistic contexts. While one third of these contexts were totally unstructured (e.g., an irregular piece of land jumbled up with 72 cars), another third…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Computation, Number Concepts