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Cognitive Functioning and Performance on Addition and Subtraction Word Problems.
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Romberg, Thomas A.; Collis, Kevin F. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1985
Determined whether 11 third-grade children, differing in cognitive processing capacity, solve addition and subtraction word problems differently. Results, among others, show that children who differ in cognitive processing capacity also differ in strategies they use to solve the same verbal problems and differ in their success in finding correct…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Educational Research