From informal strategies to structured procedures: Mind the gap!

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 149-170

  Anghileri, Julia ^a   Beishuizen, Meindert ^b   Van Putten, Kees ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Arithmetic; Division; Strategies; Written computation

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244347924     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016273328213     Document Type: Article

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