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ERIC Number: EJ668908
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2002
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ISSN: ISSN-0144-3410
Young Children's Understanding of Addition Concepts.
Canobi, Katherine H.; Reeve, Robert A.; Pattison, Philippa E.
Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, v22 n5 p513-32 Dec 2002
Investigates children's knowledge of concrete versions of additive composition, commutativity, and associativity. Reports that in study one, four-to five-year-olds (n=24) and five- to six-year-olds (n=25) judged the equivalence of conceptually related addition problems using groups of objects. States that in study two, five- to six-year-olds (n=45) judged related problems and solved addition problems. (CMK)
Descriptors: Addition, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interviews, Kindergarten, Mathematics, Primary Education, Problem Solving, Young Children
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Australia
Note: Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology is a refereed journal.