Fifth graders' additive and multiplicative reasoning: Establishing connections across conceptual fields using a graph

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 224-234

  Caddle, Mary C ^a   Brizuela, Bárbara M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartesian plane; Conceptual field; Early Algebra; Function; Graph; Multiplicative reasoning; Student explanations

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053188646     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2011.04.002     Document Type: Article

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