Some mental notes on mental addition

Effie Maclellan

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9604.1995.tb00005.x

Some mental notes on mental addition

Effie Maclellan

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Popular descriptions of how children secure the answers to addition operations, may be contributing to confused thinking. Distinctions appear to be made between adding ‘on paper’, ‘with a calculator’ and ‘with concrete materials’. Such distinctions are real only in the sense that they distinguish between the trappings of addition. This may well be deflecting us from the more essential issue, which is the nature of the mental strategies children use when adding.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	18-21
Number of pages	4
Journal	Support for Learning
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9604.1995.tb00005.x
Publication status	Published - Feb 1995

Keywords

mental addition
mathematics
primary mathematics
education
learning
teaching

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