Effect of number structure and nature of quantities on secondary school students' proportional reasoning

Studia Psychologica

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 69-81

  Fernández, Ceneida ^a   Llinares, Salvador ^a   Van Dooren, Wim ^b   De Bock, Dirk ^b,c   Verschaffel, Lieven ^b  

^a Campus de San Vicente Del Raspeig   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c HOGESCHOOL UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Additive strategy; Nature of quantities; Number structure; Over use of proportionality; Proportional reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955808265     PISSN: 00393320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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