Teacher Knowledge Necessary to Address Student Errors and Difficulties about Equivalent Fractions

Teacher Knowledge and Practice in Middle Grades Mathematics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 147-171

  Ding, Meixia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1163/9789087906184_009     Document Type: Chapter

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