¿Por qué algunos niños tienen dificultades para calcular?: Una aproximación desde el estudio de la memoria humana = Why do some children have difficulty calculating?: an approach from the study of human memory

This work has studied the relation between human memory (central executive) and calculus performance, taking 94 Spanish students aged 7 and 8. Our results show that the relation between the central executive and arithmetic performance is important and consistent, so that children with less memory ca...

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Autor: Alsina, Àngel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10256/9492
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10256/9492
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Educació primària
Matemàtica -- Educació primària
Aritmètica -- Educació primària
Arithmetic -- Study and teaching (Primary)
Study and teaching (Primary)
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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Sumario:This work has studied the relation between human memory (central executive) and calculus performance, taking 94 Spanish students aged 7 and 8. Our results show that the relation between the central executive and arithmetic performance is important and consistent, so that children with less memory capacity will also have lower performance in areas of calculus. This data leads to the conclusion that the reeducation of children with calculus difficulties should neither rest on repetition, nor on meaningless practice, but in the activation of those psychological processes implicated in learning and, more concretely, in memory