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Understanding and Using Principles of Arithmetic: Operations Involving Negative Numbers
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Prather, Richard W.; Alibali, Martha W. – Cognitive Science, 2008
Previous work has investigated adults' knowledge of principles for arithmetic with positive numbers (Dixon, Deets, & Bangert, 2001). The current study extends this past work to address adults' knowledge of principles of arithmetic with a negative number, and also investigates links between knowledge of principles and problem representation.…
Descriptors: Numbers, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Equations (Mathematics)