Teaching and classroom experiments dealing with fractions and proportional reasoning

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 107-111

  Davis, Gary E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive scheme; Constructivist teaching experiment; Fractions; Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042428918     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-3123(03)00016-6     Document Type: Article

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