The Processing of Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Ratios in School-Age Children
The Processing of Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Ratios in School-Age Children
This study tested the processing of ratios of natural numbers in school-age children. Nine- and eleven-year-olds were presented collections made up of orange and grey dots (i.e., nonsymbolic format) and fractions (i.e., symbolic format). They were asked to estimate ratios between the number of orange dots and the total number …