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Download full textGinsburg, Lynda; Gal, Iddo – 1995
This study examined adult students' informal knowledge of percent and its relationship to their computational skills. Sixty adults studying in urban and suburban adult education programs were interviewed to ascertain: (1) their ideas of the meanings of benchmark percents, 100%, 50%, and 25%, as they appear in advertising and media contexts; (2)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Structures, Computation
