A Longitudinal Study of Children's Performance on Simple Multiplication and Division Problems

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1480-1496

  De Brauwer, Jolien ^a   Fias, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

arithmetic; development; memory retrieval; simple division; simple multiplication

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RECALL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK;

AGE FACTORS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ODDS RATIO; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 70249113758     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015465     Document Type: Article

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