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Download full textBragg, Philippa; Outhred, Lynne – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
Recent publications continue to show that significant numbers of students in junior grades, while competent in basic ruler skills, seem not to have acquired important concepts about how rulers work and units of length. This paper reports on the results of a set of tasks completed by students from Grades 5 and 6. The results show that many students…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Measurement, Grade 6, Foreign Countries
