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Direct linkXiantong Yang; Jon R. Star; Ru-De Liu; Yi Yang – Educational Psychology Review, 2025
Existing research has revealed key factors influencing mathematical flexibility, defined as the capacity to understand, generate, and apply a variety of strategies in solving mathematical problems. However, there is currently a lack of an integrated theoretical framework to systematically consolidate various sources of individual differences in…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Demography
T. Vessonen; H. Hellstrand; P. Aunio; A. Laine – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2024
The aim of this study was to investigate individual differences in mathematical problem-solving among 3- to 5-year-old children (N = 328; n[subscript 3-year-olds] = 115, n[subscript 4-year-olds] = 167, n[subscript 5-year-olds] = 46). First, we examined the extent to which children in this age group were able to solve open and closed non-routine…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Preschool Children
Wong, Harris; Odic, Darko – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Research over the past 20 years has suggested that our intuitive sense of number--the Approximate Number System (ANS)--is associated with individual differences in symbolic math performance. The mechanism supporting this relationship, however, remains unknown. Here, we test whether the ANS contributes to how well adult observers judge the…
Descriptors: Number Systems, Symbols (Mathematics), Equations (Mathematics), Problem Solving
Download full textJeffrey Kramer Bye; Jenny Yun-Chen Chan; Avery H. Closser; Ji-Eun Lee; Stacy T. Shaw; Erin R. Ottmar – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2024
Students often perform arithmetic using rigid problem-solving strategies that involve left-to-right-calculations. However, as students progress from arithmetic to algebra, entrenchment in rigid problem-solving strategies can negatively impact performance as students experience varied problem representations that sometimes conflict with the order…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills
Bojorque, Gina; Gonzales, Neli; Wijns, Nore; Verschaffel, Lieven; Torbeyns, Joke – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Young children's early repeating patterning abilities are important foundations for their later mathematical development. Prior studies on young children's repeating patterning abilities have been conducted exclusively in developed countries differing in economic, societal, and educational characteristics from developing countries. In this study,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Young Children
Tosto, Maria Grazia; Garon-Carrier, Gabrielle; Gross, Susan; Petrill, Stephen A.; Malykh, Sergey; Malki, Karim; Hart, Sara A.; Thompson, Lee; Karadaghi, Rezhaw L.; Yakovlev, Nikita; Tikhomirova, Tatiana; Opfer, John E.; Mazzocco, Michèle M. M.; Dionne, Ginette; Brendgen, Mara; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E.; Boivin, Michel; Kovas, Yulia – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Background: The number line task assesses the ability to estimate numerical magnitudes. People vary greatly in this ability, and this variability has been previously associated with mathematical skills. However, the sources of individual differences in number line estimation and its association with mathematics are not fully understood. Aims: This…
Descriptors: Twins, Individual Differences, Computation, Mathematics Skills
Xu, Chang; Lafay, Anne; Douglas, Heather; Di Lonardo Burr, Sabrina; LeFevre, Jo-Anne; Osana, Helena P.; Skwarchuk, Sheri-Lynn; Wylie, Judith; Simms, Victoria; Maloney, Erin A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Language skills play an important role in mathematics development. Students (7 to 10 years of age) learning school mathematics either in the same language used at home (first-language learners; n = 103) or in a different language (second-language learners; n = 57) participated in the study. Relations among cognitive skills (i.e., receptive…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Language Skills, Arithmetic, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Mielicki, Marta K.; Fitzsimmons, Charles J.; Woodbury, Lauren H.; Marshal, Hannah; Zhang, Dake; Rivera, Ferdinand D.; Thompson, Clarissa A. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Prior work exploring preschool-aged children's reasoning with repeating patterns has shown that patterning ability is an important predictor of math achievement; however, there is limited research exploring older children's growing pattern task performance. The current study tested whether presentation format impacts performance on growing pattern…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mathematics Skills, Number Concepts, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Cooper, Jennifer L.; Sidney, Pooja G.; Alibali, Martha W. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
How do diagrams and illustrations affect mathematical problem solving? Past research suggests that diagrams should promote correct performance. However, illustrations may provide a supportive context for problem solving, or they may distract students with seductive details. Moreover, effects may not be uniform across student subgroups. This study…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Problem Solving, Trigonometry, Undergraduate Students
Görgün, Sena; Tican, Canses – International Education Studies, 2020
The main purpose of the current study is to investigate middle school students' math self-efficacy perceptions and math problem posing attitudes. The sample of the study is comprised of 990 fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grade students attending middle school in the Fethiye district of the city of Mugla. As the data collection tool, the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Skills
Schlatter, Erika; Lazonder, Ard W.; Molenaar, Inge; Janssen, Noortje – Education Sciences, 2021
Scientific reasoning is an important skill that encompasses hypothesizing, experimenting, inferencing, evaluating data and drawing conclusions. Previous research found consistent inter- and intra-individual differences in children's ability to perform these component skills, which are still largely unaccounted for. This study examined these…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Thinking Skills, Science Process Skills, Elementary School Students
Obersteiner, Andreas – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
Affect and mathematical competence are each multifaceted constructs. Accordingly, the studies in this Special Issue address multiple pathways between the two in young children. This commentary highlights the variability of these pathways and asks how affective variables are specifically related to core mathematical activities such as problem…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Periodicals, Elementary School Students, Affective Behavior
Agus, Mirian; Peró-Cebollero, Maribel; Guàrdia-Olmos, Joan; Portoghese, Igor; Mascia, Maria Lidia; Penna, Maria Pietronilla – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2020
This paper reports some experiments on probabilistic reasoning designed to investigate the impact of the probabilistic problem presentation format (verbal-numerical and graphical-pictorial) on subjects' confidence in the correctness of their performance, other than the calibration between confidence and accuracy. To understand the potential effect…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Self Efficacy, Context Effect, Statistics
Alibali, Martha W.; Brown, Sarah A.; Menendez, David – Grantee Submission, 2019
Learning, development, and response to instruction often involve changes in the strategies that learners use to solve problems. In this chapter, our focus is on mathematical problem solving in both children and adults. We offer a selective review of research on three classes of factors that may influence processes of strategy change in…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Instruction
Brown, Sarah A.; Menendez, David; Alibali, Martha W. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Why do people change their strategies for solving problems? In this research, we tested whether negative feedback and the context in which learners encounter a strategy influence their likelihood of adopting that strategy. In particular, we examined whether strategy adoption varied when learners were exposed to a target strategy in isolation, in…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Feedback (Response)
