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This essay is based on observation and interpretation of the mathematical language of children while they engage in situations involving fractional numbers. This interpretation includes the consideration of various levels of language use, informal metamorphic and metonymic uses of fractional number language, and the interplay between language use…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Education, Epistemology
