Acquisition of new arithmetic skills based on prior arithmetic skills : A cross-sectional study in primary school from grade 2 to grade 5 (Journal Article)
- UK : John Wiley and Sons Ltd , September 2023
- 727-741p.
- British Journal of Educational Psychology , Volume 93, Part 3, September 2023 .
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Abstract: Background In several countries, children's math skills have been declining at an alarming rate in recent years and decades, and one of the explanations for this alarming situation is that children have difficulties in establishing the relations between arithmetical operations.
Aim In order to address this question, our goal was to determine the predictive power of previously taught operations on newly taught ones above general cognitive skills and basic numerical skills.