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Smadar Sapir-Yogev; Gitit Kavé; Sarit Ashkenazi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
The solution and verification of single-digit multiplication problems vary in speed and accuracy. The current study examines whether the number of different digits in a problem accounts for this variance. In Experiment 1, 41 participants solved all 2-9 multiplication problems. In Experiment 2, 43 participants verified these problems. In Experiment…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Mathematical Concepts, Multiplication
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Kontorovich, Igor' – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2018
How do students cope with and make sense of polysemy in mathematics? Zazkis (1998) tackled these questions in the case of 'divisor' and 'quotient'. When requested to determine the quotient in the division of 12 by 5, some of her pre-service teachers operated in the domain of integers and argued for 2, while others adhered to rational numbers and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Arithmetic