Are secondary school students still hampered by the natural number bias? A reaction time study on fraction comparison tasks

Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 154-164

  Van Hoof, Jo ^a   Lijnen, Tristan ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a   Van Dooren, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

dual process theory; fractions; natural number bias; reaction time study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879643447     PISSN: 14794802     EISSN: 17540178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14794802.2013.797747     Document Type: Article

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