Children's fractional knowledge

Children’s Fractional Knowledge elegantly tracks the construction of knowledge, both by children learning new methods of reasoning and by the researchers studying their methods. The book challenges the widely held belief that children’s whole number knowledge is a distraction from their learning of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steffe, Leslie P. (-)
Other Authors: Olive, John
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Springer c2010.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009455942706719
Table of Contents:
  • A New Hypothesis Concerning Children’s Fractional Knowledge
  • Perspectives on Children’s Fraction Knowledge
  • Operations That Produce Numerical Counting Schemes
  • Articulation of the Reorganization Hypothesis
  • The Partitive and the Part-Whole Schemes
  • The Unit Composition and the Commensurate Schemes
  • The Partitive, the Iterative, and the Unit Composition Schemes
  • Equipartitioning Operations for Connected Numbers: Their Use and Interiorization
  • The Construction of Fraction Schemes Using the Generalized Number Sequence
  • The Partitioning and Fraction Schemes
  • Continuing Research on Students’ Fraction Schemes.