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Erroneous additive or multiplicative reasoning: The role of preference besides ability

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Previous research has repeatedly shown that children erroneously reason additively in multiplicative word problems, while others erroneously reason multiplicatively in additive word problems. The present study aimed to investigate to what extent this erroneous reasoning depends on children’s preference for additive or multiplicative relations, besides their abilities. A preference test, a word problem test, and a test measuring the (procedural and conceptual) additive and multiplicative reasoning abilities were administered to 246 third to sixth graders. Results revealed that a substantial percentage of the erroneous additive reasoners or erroneous multiplicative reasoners possessed all necessary abilities, and almost all of them had a more general preference for additive resp. multiplicative relations.
Boek: Proceedings of the 41th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME)
Pagina's: 273 - 280
ISBN:9781387136117
Jaar van publicatie:2017
Toegankelijkheid:Closed