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Peer reviewedLewis, Karen Elaine – Childhood Education, 1985
Discusses students' inability to make the connection between manipulative materials and pencil-and-paper calculations in mathematics instruction. Outlines the development of mathematical ideas through the concrete, representational, and abstract phases of instruction. An annotated bibliography listing teacher resources for representational-level…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Children, Computation, Elementary Education
