• DOI:10.1080/09541440600709955
Corpus ID: 121178042

Parsing of algebraic expressions by experienced users of mathematics

@article{Jansen2007ParsingOA,
  title={Parsing of algebraic expressions by experienced users of mathematics},
  author={A. R. Jansen and Kimbal George Marriott and Gregory Wayne Yelland},
  journal={European Journal of Cognitive Psychology},
  year={2007},
  volume={19},
  pages={286 - 320}
}

A. R. Jansen, Kimbal George Marriott, Gregory Wayne Yelland

Published 2007

Mathematics

European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

The present study investigates how experienced users of mathematics parse algebraic expressions. The main issues examined are the order in which the symbols in an expression are scanned and the duration of fixation. Two experiments tracked the order in which the symbols of an expression were scanned. The results were analysed using Markov Chain models of the scanpath data and provided strong support for the hypothesised scanning order: a left-to-right, top-to-bottom syntax-based scanning order… CONTINUE READING

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