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Hecht, Steven A.; Vagi, Kevin J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore individual patterns of strengths and weaknesses in children's mathematical knowledge about common fractions. Tasks that primarily measure either conceptual or procedural aspects of mathematical knowledge were assessed with the same children in their fourth- and fifth-grade years (N = 181, 56% female and 44%…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Concept Formation, Grade 5, Grade 4
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Boyer, Ty W.; Levine, Susan C. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
The current experiments examined the role of scale factor in children's proportional reasoning. Experiment 1 used a choice task and Experiment 2 used a production task to examine the abilities of kindergartners through fourth-graders to match equivalent, visually depicted proportional relations. The findings of both experiments show that accuracy…
Descriptors: Scaling, Measures (Individuals), Mathematical Concepts, Task Analysis