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Download full textSophian, Catherine; Madrid, Samara – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
To examine how conceptual knowledge about fraction magnitudes changes as students' learning progresses, 5th and 7th-grade students were asked to solve fraction magnitude problems that entailed finding a fraction between two given fractions and then to evaluate solutions for similar problems that were modeled for them. When the given fractions…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 5, Mathematics, Mathematical Models
