A focus on fractions: Bringing research to the classroom

A Focus on Fractions: Bringing Research to the Classroom

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-187

  Petit, Marjorie M ^c   Laird, Robert E ^a   Marsden, Edwin L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b NORWICH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203855515     Document Type: Book

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