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Papers by Arthur Baroody
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Jul 1, 1990
Routledge eBooks, Sep 1, 1998
Cognition and Instruction, 2007
The Arithmetic Teacher, Nov 1, 1984
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Nov 1, 1986
Evidence of basic counting principles has been found in retarded children (Gelman, 1982), includi... more Evidence of basic counting principles has been found in retarded children (Gelman, 1982), including those who are moderately handicapped (Baroody & Snyder, 1983). However, Gelman found no evidence of a stable-order or a cardinality principle in mentally handicapped children with a mental age (MA) of less than 4½ years. The current study examined retarded children in the same MA category to (a) evaluate the hypothesis of a critical MA for learning basic counting principles and (b) further examine how an understanding of counting develops.
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Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting, 2019
Child Development, Mar 27, 2023
Education and training of the mentally retarded, 1983
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Mar 5, 2018
PubMed, Jul 1, 1996
Children with mental retardation often seem incapable of self-initiated learning. A training expe... more Children with mental retardation often seem incapable of self-initiated learning. A training experiment was designed to determine whether such children could spontaneously invent more efficient addition strategies for calculating simple sums; apply these strategies to larger, unpracticed combinations; and retain these strategies after 5 months. An experimental group and a control group were shown a basic concrete counting procedure. Over 6 months, the experimental group was given regular opportunities to practice computing sums. Many of them invented calculational short cuts. On immediate and delayed posttests, they used significantly more sophisticated strategies than did control participants. Results suggest that children with mental retardation can invent, transfer, and retain strategies for learning tasks.
Education and training of the mentally retarded, 1986
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, May 1, 2000
The Arithmetic Teacher, 1989
... Consider, for example, Piaget's (1965) classic number-conservation task in which... more ... Consider, for example, Piaget's (1965) classic number-conservation task in which a child is first shown two rows of items lined Vignette 2: A Systematic Counting Error* VIGNETTE COMMENTS During one of her frequent and spontaneous efforts to practice counting, five-year ...
PubMed, 1987
The effects of problem size on judgments of commutativity by 51 moderately and mildly mentally re... more The effects of problem size on judgments of commutativity by 51 moderately and mildly mentally retarded students were investigated. The task required subjects to judge whether commuted addition problems (e.g., 5 + 2 and 2 + 5) and noncommuted problems (e.g., 5 + 3 and 5 + 0) would have the same or different sum. Small problems had addends of five or less; large problems had at least one addend greater than five. The subjects' responses to the commutativity task were highly consistent across the two problem sizes. Results indicated that many retarded students who are given computational practice recognize the general principle that addend order does not affect the sum.
Teaching children mathematics, Nov 1, 2001
Developing an understanding of number has historically been the focus of early childhood mathemat... more Developing an understanding of number has historically been the focus of early childhood mathematics instruction and a foundation for subsequent instruction. When should mathematics “instruction” begin? On what topics should initial instruction efforts focus? How should such efforts be implemented? This article addresses these questions.
PubMed, Mar 1, 1988
A training experiment was undertaken to determine whether children classified as mentally retarde... more A training experiment was undertaken to determine whether children classified as mentally retarded could learn a general magnitude-comparison rule ("The number that comes after another in the number sequence is more than the preceding number"). After a pretest, 22 subjects were randomly assigned to an experimental or a control training group. On both immediate and delayed posttests, the experimental subjects significantly outperformed control children on trained number pairs. A modest amount of transfer was also evident. The results suggest that a counting-based approach that utilizes rule rehearsal can help children classified as mentally retarded to use their representation of the number sequence to make mental magnitude comparisons.
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Jul 1, 1990
Routledge eBooks, Sep 1, 1998
Cognition and Instruction, 2007
The Arithmetic Teacher, Nov 1, 1984
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Nov 1, 1986
Evidence of basic counting principles has been found in retarded children (Gelman, 1982), includi... more Evidence of basic counting principles has been found in retarded children (Gelman, 1982), including those who are moderately handicapped (Baroody & Snyder, 1983). However, Gelman found no evidence of a stable-order or a cardinality principle in mentally handicapped children with a mental age (MA) of less than 4½ years. The current study examined retarded children in the same MA category to (a) evaluate the hypothesis of a critical MA for learning basic counting principles and (b) further examine how an understanding of counting develops.
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Proceedings of the 2019 AERA Annual Meeting, 2019
Child Development, Mar 27, 2023
Education and training of the mentally retarded, 1983
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Mar 5, 2018
PubMed, Jul 1, 1996
Children with mental retardation often seem incapable of self-initiated learning. A training expe... more Children with mental retardation often seem incapable of self-initiated learning. A training experiment was designed to determine whether such children could spontaneously invent more efficient addition strategies for calculating simple sums; apply these strategies to larger, unpracticed combinations; and retain these strategies after 5 months. An experimental group and a control group were shown a basic concrete counting procedure. Over 6 months, the experimental group was given regular opportunities to practice computing sums. Many of them invented calculational short cuts. On immediate and delayed posttests, they used significantly more sophisticated strategies than did control participants. Results suggest that children with mental retardation can invent, transfer, and retain strategies for learning tasks.
Education and training of the mentally retarded, 1986
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, May 1, 2000
The Arithmetic Teacher, 1989
... Consider, for example, Piaget's (1965) classic number-conservation task in which... more ... Consider, for example, Piaget's (1965) classic number-conservation task in which a child is first shown two rows of items lined Vignette 2: A Systematic Counting Error* VIGNETTE COMMENTS During one of her frequent and spontaneous efforts to practice counting, five-year ...
PubMed, 1987
The effects of problem size on judgments of commutativity by 51 moderately and mildly mentally re... more The effects of problem size on judgments of commutativity by 51 moderately and mildly mentally retarded students were investigated. The task required subjects to judge whether commuted addition problems (e.g., 5 + 2 and 2 + 5) and noncommuted problems (e.g., 5 + 3 and 5 + 0) would have the same or different sum. Small problems had addends of five or less; large problems had at least one addend greater than five. The subjects' responses to the commutativity task were highly consistent across the two problem sizes. Results indicated that many retarded students who are given computational practice recognize the general principle that addend order does not affect the sum.
Teaching children mathematics, Nov 1, 2001
Developing an understanding of number has historically been the focus of early childhood mathemat... more Developing an understanding of number has historically been the focus of early childhood mathematics instruction and a foundation for subsequent instruction. When should mathematics “instruction” begin? On what topics should initial instruction efforts focus? How should such efforts be implemented? This article addresses these questions.
PubMed, Mar 1, 1988
A training experiment was undertaken to determine whether children classified as mentally retarde... more A training experiment was undertaken to determine whether children classified as mentally retarded could learn a general magnitude-comparison rule ("The number that comes after another in the number sequence is more than the preceding number"). After a pretest, 22 subjects were randomly assigned to an experimental or a control training group. On both immediate and delayed posttests, the experimental subjects significantly outperformed control children on trained number pairs. A modest amount of transfer was also evident. The results suggest that a counting-based approach that utilizes rule rehearsal can help children classified as mentally retarded to use their representation of the number sequence to make mental magnitude comparisons.