Developmental changes in the comparison of decimal fractions

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 521-532

  Desmet, Laetitia ^a,b   Grégoire, Jacques ^b   Mussolin, Christophe ^b  

^a Centre for Research on the Teaching of Mathematics   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Comparison task; Conceptual change; Decimal fractions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955980498     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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