Acquisition and use of shortcut strategies by traditionally schooled children

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-17

  Torbeyns, Joke ^a   De Smedt, Bert ^a   Ghesquière, Pol ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Compensation strategy; Elementary school children; Indirect addition; Multi digit addition and subtraction; Shortcut strategies; Strategy development; Strategy discovery; Strategy diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 64949127172     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-008-9155-z     Document Type: Article

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