The empty number line in dutch second grades: Realistic versus Gradual Program Design

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 443-464

  Klein, Anton S ^a   Beishuizen, Meindert ^a   Treffers, Adri ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Addition, subtraction; Children's strategies; Early childhood, K 4; Early number learning; Mental arithmetic; Representations, modeling; Whole numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044436458     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749861     Document Type: Article

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