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Title:

Icon arrays help younger children's proportional reasoning

Document type:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Author(s):
Ruggeri, Azzurra; Vagharchakian, Laurianne; Xu, Fei
Abstract:
We investigated the effects of two context variables, presentation format (icon arrays or numerical frequencies) and time limitation (limited or unlimited time), on the proportional reasoning abilities of children aged 7 and 10years, as well as adults. Participants had to select, between two sets of tokens, the one that offered the highest likelihood of drawing a gold token, that is, the set of elements with the greater proportion of gold tokens. Results show that participants performed better i...     »
Journal title:
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Year:
2018
Journal volume:
36
Month:
jun
Journal issue:
2
Pages contribution:
313--333
Fulltext / DOI:
doi:10.1111/bjdp.12233
WWW:
http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/bjdp.12233
Print-ISSN:
0261510X
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