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Direct linkViegut, Alexandria A.; Resnick, Ilyse; Miller-Cotto, Dana; Newcombe, Nora S.; Jordan, Nancy C. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Young children have informal knowledge of fractions before learning about fraction symbols in school. In the current study, we followed 103 children in the Mid-Atlantic United States from the fall to the spring of first grade to characterize the development of individual differences in early informal fraction knowledge, as well as its relation to…
Descriptors: Fractions, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedEmpson, Susan B. – Cognition and Instruction, 1999
This study explored first graders' fraction learning when the teacher elicited and built on children's informal knowledge of fractions during discussions of equal-sharing tasks; the study focused on key classroom interactions resulting in cognitive change. Findings suggest that thinking about fractions is influenced by the structure of the child's…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Context Effect, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
