Levels of students' "conception" of fractions

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-83

  Pantziara, Marilena ^a   Philippou, George ^b  

^a Cyprus Pedagogical Institute   (Cyprus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Comparison; Equivalence; Fraction; Measurement; Part whole subconstruct; Procedural and conceptual understanding; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555174365     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-011-9338-x     Document Type: Article

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