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Do Children Understand Fraction Addition?
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Braithwaite, David W.; Tian, Jing; Siegler, Robert S. – Developmental Science, 2018
Many children fail to master fraction arithmetic even after years of instruction. A recent theory of fraction arithmetic (Braithwaite, Pyke, & Siegler, 2017) hypothesized that this poor learning of fraction arithmetic procedures reflects poor conceptual understanding of them. To test this hypothesis, we performed three experiments examining…
Descriptors: Fractions, Addition, Arithmetic, Hypothesis Testing
Do Children Understand Fraction Addition?
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Braithwaite, David W.; Tian, Jing; Siegler, Robert S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Many children fail to master fraction arithmetic even after years of instruction. A recent theory of fraction arithmetic (Braithwaite, Pyke, & Siegler, in press) hypothesized that this poor learning of fraction arithmetic procedures reflects poor conceptual understanding of them. To test this hypothesis, we performed three experiments…
Descriptors: Fractions, Addition, Arithmetic, Mathematics