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Vamvakoussi, Xenia; Christou, Konstantinos P.; Mertens, Lieve; Van Dooren, Wim – Learning and Instruction, 2011
It is widely documented that the density property of rational numbers is challenging for students. The framework theory approach to conceptual change places this observation in the more general frame of problems faced by learners in the transition from natural to rational numbers. As students enrich, but do not restructure, their natural number…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Comparative Education, Intervals
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Hatzinikita, Vassilia; Koulaidis, Vasilis – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1997
Explores both the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of pupils' ideas related to conservation during state changes of water. Analysis of questionnaire data indicates that qualitative understanding precedes quantitative. Contains 18 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)