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Children's Inferencing Behavior.
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Behr, Merlyn J.; Khoury, Helen Adi – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1986
Fifth graders performed better than third graders on discovering the function rule relating two number pairs. Task difficulty and mode of presentation (graphic or symbolic) varied by function. The children seemed ready to relinquish a hypothesis in the face of disconfirming evidence. (MNS)
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