Brief Report. Educated adults are still affected by intuitions about the effect of arithmetical operations: Evidence from a reaction-time study

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 323-330

  Vamvakoussi, Xenia ^a   Van Dooren, Wim ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adults; Arithmetic operations; Intuitions; Reaction time research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872498745     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-012-9432-8     Document Type: Article

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