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ERIC Number: EJ469833
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0663
What Makes Certain Arithmetic Word Problems Involving the Comparison of Sets So Difficult for Children?
Stern, Elsbeth
Journal of Educational Psychology, v85 n1 p7-23 Mar 1993
Six experiments with 42 kindergartners, 190 first graders, and 15 second graders in Germany investigated why arithmetic word problems with an unknown reference set are more difficult for children than are problems with an unknown compare set. Lack of access to flexible language use makes these problems so difficult. (SLD)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Grade 2, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Language Proficiency, Primary Education, Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cognitive Flexibility; Germany; Reference Sets
Note: Paper presented in part at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Assn. (Chicago, IL, April 3-7, 1991).