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Peer reviewedAdams, John W.; Hitch, Graham J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Two experiments investigated extent to which English- and German-speaking childrens' mental arithmetic was constrained by working memory. Found higher mental addition spans when numbers were visible throughout calculation than when not. Variation in addition span with age and arithmetical operation difficulty approximated to a linear function of…
Descriptors: Addition, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Children
