Young children's partitioning strategies

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 191-221

  Charles, Kathy ^a   Nason, Rod ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Mathematical Thinking and Learning ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Analog objects; Children's informal knowledge; Conceptual mapping; Fair shares; Partitioning strategies; Partitioning tasks; Partitive quotient fraction construct; Quantification; Taxonomy; Teaching interventions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749027814     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017513716026     Document Type: Article

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