Measuring fences and sharing pizzas: Current advances in nonsymbolic fraction interventions

RA Abreu-Mendoza… - Caminhos da Educação …, 2023 - periodicos.ifs.edu.br
Students finalizing elementary school should successfully solve fraction arithmetic and
comparison problems. However, less than 30% of eighth-grade students in the United States …

Out of proportion or out of context? Comparing 8-to 9-year-olds' proportional reasoning abilities across fair-sharing, mixtures, and probability contexts

AS Supply, E Vanluydt, W Van Dooren… - Educational Studies in …, 2023 - Springer
Findings on children's proportional reasoning abilities strongly vary across studies. This
might be due to the different contexts that can be used in proportional problems: fair-sharing …

Who's the winner? Children's math learning in competitive and collaborative scenarios

LR Fish, L Hildebrand, N Chernyak… - Child …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Games are frequently used to promote math learning, yet the competitive and collaborative
contexts introduced by games may exacerbate gender differences. In this study, 1st and 2nd …

The early development of proportional reasoning: A longitudinal study of 5-to 8-year-olds.

E Vanluydt, L Verschaffel… - Journal of educational …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study longitudinally investigated proportional reasoning abilities in early
elementary school before the start of its instruction. Three aims were put forward:(a) …

From non-symbolic to symbolic proportions and back: a Cuisenaire rod proportional reasoning intervention enhances continuous proportional reasoning skills

RA Abreu-Mendoza, L Coulanges, K Ali… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The persistent educational challenges that fractions pose call for developing novel
instructional methods to better prepare students for fraction learning. Here, we examined the …

Children's discrete proportional reasoning is related to inhibitory control and enhanced by priming continuous representations

RA Abreu-Mendoza, L Coulanges, K Ali… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Children can successfully compare continuous proportions as early as 4 years of age, yet
they struggle to compare discrete proportions at least to 10 years of age, especially when …

Juvenile graphical perception: A comparison between children and adults

L Panavas, AE Worth, T Crnovrsanin… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Data visualization is pervasive in the lives of children as they encounter graphs and charts in
early education and online media. In spite of this prevalence, our guidelines and …

Early stages of proportional reasoning: A cross-sectional study with 5-to 9-year-olds

E Vanluydt, T Degrande, L Verschaffel… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The present study cross-sectionally investigated proportional reasoning abilities in 5-to 9-
year-old children (n= 185) before they received instruction in proportional reasoning. This …

How many apples make a quarter? The challenge of discrete proportional formats

KN Begolli, JL Booth, CA Holmes… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Proportional judgments are easier for children in continuous formats rather than discretized
ones (eg, liquid in a beaker vs. in a beaker with unit markings). Continuous formats tap a …

Probing the neural basis of rational numbers: The role of inhibitory control and magnitude representations

M Rosenberg-Lee - Heterogeneous contributions to numerical cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Rational numbers, such as fractions, decimals, and percentages, are a persistent challenge
in the mathematics curriculum. An underappreciated source of rational number difficulties …