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Download full textBrinker, Laura – 1997
This paper describes how a target group of seven students in a combined fourth and fifth grade mathematics class used structured representations to solve fraction problems situated within various realistic contexts. Emphasis is given to the ways in which students' thinking about rational number concepts influences and is influenced by the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
