Basic Considerations for Profitable Research in Arithmetic

Chapter II: Teaching of Mathematics in Grades I thru VI

“…Wilson (80) called attention to the need for research on the skills, appreciations, and knowledge of arithmetic which are of demonstrable value, rather than upon items and processes for which no convincing case can be made. Using data from the study on the multiplication combinations mentioned above, Brownell (6) undertook to show the need to include in evaluation some evidence on the degree to which children are actually growing in power of quantitative thinking.…”