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Direct linkFitzsimmons, Charles J.; Thompson, Clarissa A.; Sidney, Pooja G. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Understanding fraction magnitudes is especially important in daily life, but fraction reasoning is quite difficult. To accurately reason about fraction magnitudes, adults need to monitor what they know and what they do not know. However, little is known about which cues adults use to monitor fraction performance. Across two studies, we examined…
Descriptors: Fractions, Cues, Metacognition, Familiarity
Clarissa A. Thompson; Jennifer M. Taber; Pooja G. Sidney; Charles J. Fitzsimmons; Marta K. Mielicki; Percival G. Matthews; Erika A. Schemmel; Nicolle Simonovic; Jeremy L. Foust; Pallavi Aurora; David J. Disabato; T. H. Stanley Seah; Lauren K. Schiller; Karin G. Coifman – Grantee Submission, 2021
At the onset of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global pandemic, our interdisciplinary team hypothesized that a mathematical misconception--whole number bias (WNB)--contributed to beliefs that COVID-19 was less fatal than the flu. We created a brief online educational intervention for adults, leveraging evidence-based cognitive science…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Cognitive Processes, Logical Thinking
