Advancing Our Knowledge of Mathematical Understanding (Special Thematic Section)
Article Collection Editors: Daniel B. Berch (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA), Jo-Anne LeFevre (Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada), Bert De Smedt (University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium), Helena P. Osana (Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada)
This collection of articles explores theoretical, methodological, empirical, and epistemological facets of conceptual understanding in mathematics. Topics include young children’s understanding of repeated patterning, longitudinal predictors of children’s understanding of arithmetic principles, comparisons of implicit and explicit measures, evolutionary contributions of the controlled semantic cognition system, and core features of mathematical understanding.