The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research
into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational …

This article reports results of a four-year longitudinal study that investigated the impact of
specific and non-specific precursors on mathematical school achievement. Preschool …

Cognitive scientists have studied internal cognitive structures, processes, and systems for
decades in order to understand how they function in human learning. In order to solve …

Pictures are commonly used to represent problems. However, it is unclear how the addition
of pictures affects students' problem-solving performance. The multimedia effect in problem …

The current systematic review aimed to investigate in what ways the incorporation of visual
display tasks benefits K-12 students' content-area learning. After screening 1693 articles at …

In 3 experiments, we examined the effects of using concrete and/or abstract visual problem
representations during instruction on students' problem-solving practice, near transfer …

Arithmetic word problems are often presented accompanied by illustrations. The present
study examined how different types of illustrations influence the speed and accuracy of …

The present study examines the cognitive activity that is evoked in young children when they
are read a picture book that is written for the purpose of teaching mathematics. The focus of …

The present study aims to investigate the effects of a design experiment developed for third-
grade students in the field of mathematics word problems. The main focus of the program …

Research on solving mathematical word problems suggests that students may perform
better on problems with a close to real-life representation of the problem situation than on …