When to Block versus Interleave Practice? Evidence Against Teaching Fraction Addition before Fraction Multiplication

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 2069-2074

  Patel, Rony ^a   Liu, Ran ^a   Koedinger, Kenneth ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

blocking; fractions; interleaving

Indexed keywords

JOB ANALYSIS;

'CURRENT; ARITHMETIC ERRORS; ARITHMETIC INSTRUCTIONS; BLOCKINGS; COGNITIVE TASK ANALYSIS; ENHANCE LEARNING; FRACTION; INTERLEAVINGS; MATHEMATICS EDUCATION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85068313159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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