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Direct linkEmpson, Susan B.; Junk, Debra; Dominguez, Higinio; Turner, Erin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
Although equal sharing problems appear to support the development of fractions as multiplicative structures, very little work has examined how children's informal solutions reflect this possibility. The primary goal of this study was to analyze children's coordination of two quantities (number of people sharing and number of things being shared)…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students, Numbers
