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Peer reviewedSteel, Sylvia; Funnell, Elaine – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Examined development of multiplication skills in 8- to 12-year-olds taught by discovery methods. Found a general shift away from less effective strategies across ages 8 to 12, but by 11 years, relatively few used the most effective strategy of retrieval for all operands. Effective strategy development was related to nonverbal reasoning ability and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cross Sectional Studies, Discovery Learning
