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Index 303LLabor in vain, 28Language skills, 40Large-scale interventions, 175Building Blocks, 176–177Number Worlds curriculum, 176Pre-K Ma<strong>the</strong>matics, 177–178Learned attention <strong>and</strong> inattention, 255Learner’s attention, 92Learner’s cognitive capacity, 94Learningactive cognitive process, 83differences, 86–87<strong>and</strong> forgetting, Izawa’s basic paradigm <strong>of</strong>, 10imagination conditions, 70inert/encapsulated, 16, 29instructional procedures, 39listen <strong>and</strong> speak, 40listening/speaking society, 40long-term memory, 59multimedia, cognitive <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong>, 81native language, 40outcomes <strong>and</strong> comparison, link between,201outcomes, kind <strong>of</strong>, 83–85<strong>and</strong> performance in school, 138potentiating effects <strong>of</strong> testing, 11proactive interference, 22reading/writing, 41self-test, 21Learning venues, 78Limited capacity principle, 82Linear equation solving, 210–211Linear numerical board games. See Numericalboard games, linearLiterature, vast, 29Long-term working memory, 56Low-income backgrounds, preschoolers fromdevelopment <strong>of</strong> numerical knowledge in,174–175large-scale interventions to improve. SeeLarge-scale interventionsLow-knowledge learners, 94Low-level implicit automatic processes, 249Low-level perceptual system, 249MMA. See Modular arithmeticMastery-approach goals, 122, 123during <strong>learning</strong>, hypo<strong>the</strong>sis testing <strong>of</strong>, 125experimental design, 127predicted probability <strong>of</strong> transfer,127–128, 130in tell-<strong>and</strong>-practice condition, 126Math anxiety, 139. Seealso Ma<strong>the</strong>maticalperformanceage appropriate measure <strong>of</strong>, 153–154associated with poor math achievement, 151definition, 150developmentin middle <strong>and</strong> primary school students,152–153origins <strong>of</strong>, 155–156impact on math problem solving, 151–152impact on WM processing, 151–152, 154interventions reducing, 156–159problem in dealing with, 150–151Ma<strong>the</strong>matical performance, 141. SeealsoMa<strong>the</strong>matics classroom studies;Numerical knowledge<strong>of</strong> preschoolersarithmetic problems, 144MA (modular arithmetic) problems, 142–143number sense, 178situation-induced pressure effects on, 142WM (working memory) in, 142–143Ma<strong>the</strong>matics classroom studies. SeealsoNumerical knowledge <strong>of</strong> preschoolerscorrect method comparison incompare methods condition, 210, 211effectiveness <strong>of</strong>, 213–214efficiency <strong>and</strong> accuracy, 212linear equation solving, 210–212potential limitations, 212sequential conditions, 211problem comparison incompare-equivalent-problemscondition, 214compare-problem-types condition, 214,215effectiveness <strong>of</strong>, 214<strong>and</strong> transfer, 215Means-ends problem-solving strategy, 63, 64Memorylong-term, 38, 44, 45, 46, 48working. See Working memoryMental models, 238Mental processing systems, 244Metacognitive strategies, 41Misconception-like answering patternscompetition role in, 250–251mechanism for, 236predictive power, 240

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