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Boulet, Genevieve – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1999
Describes a teaching experiment conducted over a period of four consecutive days with 13 fourth grade students who had already completed a unit of fractions to determine whether problematic size was the ordering criteria. Concludes that children can indeed order fractions as they do natural numbers. (Contains 11 references.) (ASK)
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Fractions