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Degrande, Tine; Verschaffel, Lieven; Van Dooren, Wim – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
Previous research demonstrated that some children inappropriately solve multiplicative missing-value word problems additively, while others inappropriately solve additive missing-value word problems multiplicatively. Besides lacking skills, children's preference for additive or multiplicative relations has been shown to contribute to those errors.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Multiplication
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Csíkos, Csaba – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
The focus of this study is the relationship between students' performance in mental calculation and the strategies they use when solving three-digit mental addition problems. The sample comprises 78 4th grade students (40 boys and 38 girls). Their mean age was 10 years and 4 months. The main novelties of the current research include (1)…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Addition, Mental Computation