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Gillard, Ellen; Van Dooren, Wim; Schaeken, Walter; Verschaffel, Lieven – Human Development, 2009
Research in the psychology of mathematics education has been confronted with the fact that people blatantly fail to solve tasks they are supposed to be able to solve correctly given their available domain-specific knowledge and skills. Also researchers in cognitive psychology have encountered such phenomena. In this paper, theories that have been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving, Epistemology
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Heine, Angela; Thaler, Verena; Tamm, Sascha; Hawelka, Stefan; Schneider, Michael; Torbeyns, Joke; De Smedt, Bert; Verschaffel, Lieven; Stern, Elsbeth; Jacobs, Arthur M. – Infant and Child Development, 2010
To date, a number of studies have demonstrated the existence of mismatches between children's "implicit" and "explicit" knowledge at certain points in development that become manifest by their gestures and gaze orientation in different problem solving contexts. Stimulated by this research, we used eye movement measurement to…
Descriptors: Age, Eye Movements, Achievement, Human Body
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De Corte, Erik; Verschaffel, Lieven – 1980
Design and results of an investigation attempting to analyze and improve children's solution processes in elementary addition and subtraction problems are described. As background for the study, a conceptual model was developed based on previous research. One dimension of the model relates to the characteristics of the tasks (numerical versus word…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research