Children's Understanding of Numerical Variables.
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...One dimension along which representations vary is in how grounded or abstract they are (Paivio, 1986; Palmer, 1978)....
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...…have identified student difficulties with algebraic symbols such as variables (Clement, 1982; Knuth, Alibali, McNeil, Weinberg, & Stephens, 2005; Küchemann, 1978) and the equal sign (Kieran, 1981; McNeil & Alibali, 2004; RittleJohnson & Alibali, 1999), the difficulty of symbolic expressions…...
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...…than of balance between the two sides (Baroody & Ginsburg, 1983; Kieran, 1981), that negative signs represent subtraction but do not modify the terms they precede (Vlassis, 2004), and that variables represent a single value (Booth, 1984; Knuth, Stephens, McNeil, & Alibali, 2006; Küchemann, 1978)....
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