Teaching children how to include the inversion principle in their reasoning about quantitative relations

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 371-388

  Nunes, Terezinha ^a   Bryant, Peter ^a   Evans, Deborah ^a   Bell, Daniel ^a   Barros, Rossana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inverse relation between addition and subtraction; Numerical calculus; Relational calculus; Teaching the inverse relation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857046894     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-011-9314-5     Document Type: Article

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