In general terms, describe the development of math skills in middle childhood
What will be an ideal response?
Advances take place in three aspects of mathematical skills
Conceptual knowledge
Particularly the concept of place value and fractions
Arithmetic operations
Children move beyond counting with fingers or blocks.
They make a transition to fact retrieval
Retrieving memorized sums from memory
Problem solving
Learning a model for solving word problems helps with math outcomes.
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Research on giving vitamin supplements to young children has found that these supplements _____
a. have no effect on the IQ's of the children who take them b. may improve the IQ scores of malnourished children, but not of children who are not experiencing malnutrition c. may improve the IQ scores of well-fed children, but not children who are malnourished d. may improve the IQ scores of malnourished and well-fed children