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Peer reviewedWheatley, Grayson H.; Reynolds, Anne – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1996
Data from (n=4) students in grades three through six showed a consistent parallel between the types of units constructed in a geometric setting with those in a numeric context. Students who constructed abstract composite units in tiling the plane also did so in adding and subtracting whole numbers. (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
