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Direct linkPetersson, Jöran; Norén, Eva – Education Inquiry, 2017
The present study investigated test responses from 259 immigrant and non-immigrant school year 9 students in Sweden with the focus on how they solved two problems on fractions, one of them halving a fraction, in a test. The authors report three observations. Newly arrived second language immigrants seemed less likely to have the word 'half' in…
Descriptors: Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Swedish, Second Language Learning
