The effects of strategic counting instruction, with and without deliberate practice, on number combination skill among students with mathematics difficulties

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 89-100

  Fuchs, Lynn S ^a   Powell, Sarah R ^a   Seethaler, Pamela M ^a   Cirino, Paul T ^b   Fletcher, Jack M ^b   Fuchs, Douglas ^a   Hamlett, Carol L ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention; Math facts; Mathematics difficulties; Number combinations; Randomized experiment; Strategic counting

Indexed keywords

EID: 75849145054     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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