Pipes, Tubes, and Beakers: New approaches to teaching the rational-number system

How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 309-349

  Moss, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.17226/10126     Document Type: Chapter

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