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Glaser, Maria; Knops, André – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023
The notion that mental arithmetic is associated with shifts of spatial attention along a spatially organised mental number representation has received empirical support from three lines of research. First, participants tend to overestimate results of addition and underestimate those of subtraction problems in both exact and approximate formats.…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Mental Computation, Arithmetic, Attention
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Proulx, Jérôme – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2014
This study is part of a larger research program aimed at studying mental mathematics with objects other than numbers. It concerns operations on functions in a graphical environment with Grade-11 students. Grounded in the enactivist theory of cognition, particularly in problem-posing, the study aims to characterize students' mathematical activity…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Concepts, High School Students