The effects of different modes of representation on the solution of one-step additive problems

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 658-672

  Elia, Iliada ^a   Gagatsis, Athanasios ^a   Demetriou, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Additive problems; Decorative pictures; Informational pictures; Number line; Representations; Structural equations modelling; Verbal description

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448991491     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2007.09.011     Document Type: Article

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