Effects of semantic cues on mathematical modeling: Evidence from word-problem solving and equation construction tasks

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 471-478

  Martin, Shirley A ^a   Bassok, Miriam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; OBJECT RELATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STUDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; CUES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 26944431672     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193064     Document Type: Article

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