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Menon, Ramakrishnan – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1995
Analysis of student constructed questions about common and decimal fractions of (n=27) students in grades five and six revealed that students seemed to construct experience- and interest-based questions rather than textbook-type word problems which tended to be multistep problems. (12 references) (MKR)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Decimal Fractions, Elementary School Students, Fractions