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Peer reviewedJencks, Stanley M.; Peck, Donald M. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1975
Some students can perform operations on fractions when using physical materials, but are unable to transfer this ability to operations with symbolic expressions. They seem to view the manipulative and paper-and-pencil problems as different and are not surprised to get different answers. (SD)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions, Learning
