Variability in the natural number bias: Who, when, how, and why

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-61

  Alibali, Martha W ^a   Sidney, Pooja G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mathematics; Natural number bias; Operations; Rational numbers; Strategy choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939963181     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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