Children's sense-making of division of fractions

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 319-334

  Bulgar, Sylvia ^a  

^a RIDER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's strategies; Division; Fractions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042380070     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-3123(03)00024-5     Document Type: Article

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