Removing opportunities to calculate improves students’ performance on subsequent word problems

Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Givvin, Karen B ^a   Moroz, Veronika ^a   Loftus, William ^a   Stigler, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Community college; Developmental mathematics; Intervention; Relational thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 85075390266     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23657464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s41235-019-0175-2     Document Type: Article

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