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López, Magdalena – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2014
Introduction: This study has aimed to investigate the relationship between the development of working memory and performance on arithmetic activities. Method: We conducted a 3-year longitudinal study of a sample of 90 children, that was followed during the first, second and third year of primary school. All children were tested on measures of WM…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Longitudinal Studies
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Mix, Kelly S.; Paik, Jae H. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2008
We investigated the effects of transparent fraction names on children's reasoning about fractions. U.S. and Korean first and second graders were tested using verbal and nonverbal measures. On a verbal task, Korean students were worse at interpreting their own conventional fraction names than interpreting modified terms with a more familiar word…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Korean Americans, Grade 1, Elementary School Students