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Teaching Children about the Inverse Relation between Addition and Subtraction
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Nunes, Terezinha; Bryant, Peter; Hallett, Darcy; Bell, Daniel; Evans, Deborah – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2009
Two intervention studies are described. Both were designed to study the effects of teaching children about the inverse relation between addition and subtraction. The interventions were successful with 8-year-old children in Study 1 and to a limited extent with 5-year-old children in Study 2. In Study 1 teaching children about inversion increased…
Descriptors: Subtraction, Arithmetic, Number Concepts, Mathematics Instruction