Tracing fourth graders' learning of fractions: Early episodes from a year-long teaching experiment

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 113-132

  Steencken, Elena P ^a   Maher, Carolyn A ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's thinking; Classroom community; Fractions; Representations; Teaching experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042428919     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-3123(03)00017-8     Document Type: Article

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