The Development of Mental Addition.

Autor/inn/en	Ashcraft, Mark H.; und weitere
Titel	The Development of Mental Addition.
Quelle	(1981), (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Addition; Arithmetic; Cognitive Development; Cognitive Processes; College Students; Educational Research; Elementary Education; Elementary School Mathematics; Elementary School Students; Higher Education; Learning Theories; Memory; Mental Computation; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Addition; Arithmetik; Arithmetikunterricht; Rechnen; Kognitive Entwicklung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Collegestudent; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Elementarunterricht; Elementare Mathematik; Schulmathematik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Gedächtnis; Kopfrechnen; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Students in grades 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and college were timed as they produced the answers to simple addition problems or verified a given problem as true or false. First graders clearly relied on a counting process for their performance, as advanced by the Groen and Parkman "min" (for minimum addend) model. Third grade appears to be a transitional age with respect to addition processing; from fourth grade on, however, performance in both tasks yields evidence of a memory retrieval process as the major vehicle of mental addition. The results are discussed in terms of the Ashcraft and Battaglia (1978) "network-retrieval" model, a model which asserts that simple arithmetic facts are stored in a network representation, and are accessed in a spreading activation-like fashion. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC