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From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills
The persistent educational challenges that fractions pose call for developing novel instructional methods to better prepare students for fraction learning. Here, we examined the effects of a 24-session, Cuisenaire rod intervention on a building block for symbolic fraction knowledge, continuous and d...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34093313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633077 |
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author | Abreu-Mendoza, Roberto A. Coulanges, Linsah Ali, Kendell Powell, Arthur B. Rosenberg-Lee, Miriam |
author_facet | Abreu-Mendoza, Roberto A. Coulanges, Linsah Ali, Kendell Powell, Arthur B. Rosenberg-Lee, Miriam |
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description | The persistent educational challenges that fractions pose call for developing novel instructional methods to better prepare students for fraction learning. Here, we examined the effects of a 24-session, Cuisenaire rod intervention on a building block for symbolic fraction knowledge, continuous and discrete non-symbolic proportional reasoning, in children who have yet to receive fraction instruction. Participants were 34 second-graders who attended the intervention (intervention group) and 15 children who did not participate in any sessions (control group). As attendance at the intervention sessions was irregular (median = 15.6 sessions, range = 1–24), we specifically examined the effect of the number of sessions completed on their non-symbolic proportional reasoning. Our results showed that children who attended a larger number of sessions increased their ability to compare non-symbolic continuous proportions. However, contrary to our expectations, they also decreased their ability to compare misleading discretized proportions. In contrast, children in the Control group did not show any change in their performance. These results provide further evidence on the malleability of non-symbolic continuous proportional reasoning and highlight the rigidity of counting knowledge interference on discrete proportional reasoning. |
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spelling | pubmed-81778182021-06-05 From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills Abreu-Mendoza, Roberto A. Coulanges, Linsah Ali, Kendell Powell, Arthur B. Rosenberg-Lee, Miriam Front Psychol Psychology The persistent educational challenges that fractions pose call for developing novel instructional methods to better prepare students for fraction learning. Here, we examined the effects of a 24-session, Cuisenaire rod intervention on a building block for symbolic fraction knowledge, continuous and discrete non-symbolic proportional reasoning, in children who have yet to receive fraction instruction. Participants were 34 second-graders who attended the intervention (intervention group) and 15 children who did not participate in any sessions (control group). As attendance at the intervention sessions was irregular (median = 15.6 sessions, range = 1–24), we specifically examined the effect of the number of sessions completed on their non-symbolic proportional reasoning. Our results showed that children who attended a larger number of sessions increased their ability to compare non-symbolic continuous proportions. However, contrary to our expectations, they also decreased their ability to compare misleading discretized proportions. In contrast, children in the Control group did not show any change in their performance. These results provide further evidence on the malleability of non-symbolic continuous proportional reasoning and highlight the rigidity of counting knowledge interference on discrete proportional reasoning. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8177818/ /pubmed/34093313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633077 Text en Copyright © 2021 Abreu-Mendoza, Coulanges, Ali, Powell and Rosenberg-Lee. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Abreu-Mendoza, Roberto A. Coulanges, Linsah Ali, Kendell Powell, Arthur B. Rosenberg-Lee, Miriam From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills |
title | From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills |
title_full | From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills |
title_fullStr | From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills |
title_full_unstemmed | From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills |
title_short | From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills |
title_sort | from non-symbolic to symbolic proportions and back: a cuisenaire rod proportional reasoning intervention enhances continuous proportional reasoning skills |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8177818/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34093313 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633077 |
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