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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
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Bermejo, Vicente; Lago, M. Oliva – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
Cardinality responses are affected by both the direction and nature of the elements in the counting sequence. Error analysis suggests six stages in the acquisition of cardinality. Although there appears to be a developmental dependency between counting and cardinality, this relationship is not significant in all cases. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Computation