Giving change when payment is made with a dime: The difficulty of tens and ones

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-118

  Chandler, Cynthia C ^a   Kamii, Constance ^b  

^a BLACK HILLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructivism; Early childhood; K 4; Manipulatives; Piaget; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749111460     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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