In search for the natural number bias in secondary school students' interpretation of the effect of arithmetical operations

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 30-38

  Van Hoof, Jo ^a   Vandewalle, Jolien ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a   Van Dooren, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Effect of operations; Literal symbols; Natural number bias; Rational numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898705805     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2014.03.004     Document Type: Article

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