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Bofferding, Laura – Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
This chapter focuses on the interaction of two first graders as they attempt to make sense of a particular instructional context for learning negative numbers. The context is one where they move an elevator to a building's floors above and below ground in order to model integer addition and subtraction problems. In particular, the focus of the…
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Concepts, Concept Formation, Mathematics Instruction