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Research into Practice: Misconceptions about Multiplication and Division.

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Graeber, Anna O. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1993

Discusses the two overgeneralizations "multiplications makes bigger" and "division makes smaller" in the context of solving word problems involving rational numbers less than one. Presents activities to help students make sense of multiplication and division in these situations. (MDH)

Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Decimal Fractions, Division