To add or to multiply? An investigation of the role of preference in children's solutions of word problems

Tine Degrande; Lieven Verschaffel; Wim Van Dooren

Learning and Instruction Vol. 61, No. 1 (June 2019) pp. 60–71

Previous research has shown that upper primary school children frequently erroneously solve additive word problems multiplicatively, while younger children frequently erroneously solve multiplicative word problems additively. It has been suggested...

Language: English