Cognitive Addition: Strategy Choice and Speed-of-Processing Differences in Gifted, Normal, and Mathematically Disabled Children.

Geary, David C.; Brown, Sam C.

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Publication Date: 1991

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Cognitive Addition: Strategy Choice and Speed-of-Processing Differences in Gifted, Normal, and Mathematically Disabled Children.

Geary, David C.; Brown, Sam C.

Developmental Psychology, v27 n3 p398-406 May 1991

Gifted-, normal-, and math-disabled children solved addition problems. Their problem-solving strategies and solution times were recorded. The gifted group showed the most mature distribution of strategy choices, and a verbal counting rate less than 50 percent of the rate of the other groups. (BC)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Addition, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Gifted, Learning Disabilities, Long Term Memory, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving

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Language: English

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