Starting to add worse: effects of learning to multiply on children's addition

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 37; no. 3; p. 213
• Main Authors: Miller, K F, Paredes, D R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 01.12.1990
• Subjects: Adult; Child; Concept Formation; Female; Humans; Male; Mathematics; Mental Recall; Problem Solving; Reaction Time
• ISSN: 0010-0277
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-0277(90)90046-M

A major stumbling block in acquiring a new skill can be integrating it with old but related knowledge. Learning multiplication is a case in point, because it involves integrating new relations with previously acquired arithmetic knowledge (in particular, addition). Two studies explored developmental...