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Direct linkTian, Jing; Braithwaite, David W.; Siegler, Robert S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
This study investigated relations between the distribution of practice problems in textbooks and students' learning of decimal arithmetic. In Study 1, we analyzed the distributions of decimal arithmetic practice problems that appeared in 3 leading math textbook series in the United States. Similar imbalances in the relative frequencies of decimal…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic, Problem Solving
Lortie-Forgues, Hugues; Siegler, Robert S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2017
In 2 studies (Ns = 55 and 54), the authors examined a basic form of conceptual understanding of rational number arithmetic, the direction of effect of decimal arithmetic operations, at a level of detail useful for informing instruction. Middle school students were presented tasks examining knowledge of the direction of effects (e.g., "True or…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level, Computation
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Malone, Amelia S.; Schumacher, Robin F.; Namkung, Jessica; Hamlett, Carol L.; Jordan, Nancy C.; Siegler, Robert S.; Gersten, Russell; Changas, Paul – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
The main purposes of this study were to test the effects of teaching at-risk 4th graders to provide explanations for their mathematics work and examine whether those effects occur by compensating for limitations in cognitive processes. We randomly assigned 212 children to 3 conditions: a control group and 2 variants of a multicomponent fraction…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Cognitive Processes
