The Development of Children's Mental Multiplication Skills

In one experiment, subjects from third grade through college relied on memory retrieval rather than on counting to solve multiplication problems. An effect of confusing problems on error rates and reaction times indicated the activation of related information. In a second experiment, subjects demons...

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Published inJournal of experimental child psychology Vol. 51; no. 1; p. 53
Main Authors Koshmider, John W, Ashcraft, Mark H
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.02.1991
Subjects
Cognitive Development
College Students
Computation
Elementary School Students
Elementary Secondary Education
High School Students
Long Term Memory
Mental Computation
Multiplication
Reaction Time
Retrieval (Memory)
Skill Development
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Summary:In one experiment, subjects from third grade through college relied on memory retrieval rather than on counting to solve multiplication problems. An effect of confusing problems on error rates and reaction times indicated the activation of related information. In a second experiment, subjects demonstrated automaticity of fact retrieval on simple problems. (BC)
ISSN:0022-0965
DOI:10.1016/0022-0965(91)90077-6