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Peer reviewedMcNeal, Betsy – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 1995
Coordinates anthropological and cognitive perspectives on one child's learning of the standard addition algorithm in second and third grade. Analysis showed that the student abandoned his self-generated computational algorithms in favor of less understood conventional procedures. (25 references) (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Addition, Algorithms, Arithmetic, Classroom Environment
