A commercial programed arithmetic textbook and two teacher made programs, one using the rote approach, the other using the understanding approach, were evaluated with EMR students as subjects. The teacher made programs were designed to follow suggestions from the attention theory of Zeaman and House (1963). The rote approach was highly significant for learning division facts. Implications for the classroom and suggestions for revision of the commercial program are given.
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