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Peer reviewedArcavi, Abraham – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1994
Attempts to describe a notion parallel to number sense, called symbol sense, incorporating the following components: making friends with symbols, reading through symbols, engineering symbolic expressions, equivalent expressions for non-equivalent meanings, choice of symbols, flexible manipulation skills, symbols in retrospect, and symbols in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Algorithms, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education
Peer reviewedAnghileri, Julia – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1995
Limitations in children's understanding of the symbols of arithmetic may inhibit choice of appropriate solution procedures. The teacher's role involves negotiation of new meanings for words and symbols to match extensions to solution procedures. (MKR)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Division
