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Peer reviewedDixon, James A.; Moore, Colleen F. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Investigated relation between development of understanding principles that govern a problem and of mathematical strategies used to solve it. Subjects were college students and 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 11th graders. The pattern of estimated answers provided a measure of intuitive understanding of task principles. Understanding an intuitive principle was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
