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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Stability and Variability in Young Children's Understanding of Floating and Sinking during One Single-Task Session
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Meindertsma, Heidi B.; van Dijk, Marijn W. G.; Steenbeek, Henderien W.; van Geert, Paul L. C. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2014
Intraindividual variability is a key component in explaining children's development and learning. Studying this type of variability on the micro-timescale can help us understand real-time constructive processes and the subsequent long-term development. The aim of this article is to study the process of children's understanding of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Concept Formation, Cognitive Development
Numerical Magnitude Representations and Individual Differences in Children's Arithmetic Strategy Use
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Vanbinst, Kiran; Ghesquiere, Pol; De Smedt, Bert – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2012
Against the background of neuroimaging studies on how the brain processes numbers, there is now converging evidence that numerical magnitude representations are crucial for successful mathematics achievement. One major drawback of this research is that it mainly investigated mathematics performance as measured through general standardized…
Descriptors: Evidence, Semitic Languages, Mathematics Achievement, Symbols (Mathematics)