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Download full textLiu, Yu-Cheng; Liang, Chaoyun – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Differences exist between engineering and liberal arts students because of their educational backgrounds. Therefore, they solve problems differently. This study examined the brain activation of these two groups of students when they responded to 12 questions of verbal, numerical, or spatial intelligence. A total of 25 engineering and 25 liberal…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Engineering Education, Spatial Ability, Liberal Arts
Orrantia, Josetxu; Múñez, David; San Romualdo, Sara; Verschaffel, Lieven – Psicologica: International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology, 2015
Adults' simple arithmetic performance is more efficient when operands are presented in Arabic digit (3 + 5) than in number word (three + five) formats. An explanation provided is that visual familiarity with digits is higher respect to number words. However, most studies have been limited to single-digit addition and multiplication problems. In…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving
