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Cramer, Kathleen; Monson, Debra; Whitney, Stephanie; Leavitt, Seth; Wyberg, Terry – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2010
Fraction division is generally introduced in sixth or seventh grade with this rule: "Invert and multiply." The authors examined current commercial curricula and found that few textbooks use context as a way to build meaning for the division of fractions. When context is used, the connection between the invert-and-multiply rule and the context is…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Secondary School Mathematics, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction
Dube, France; Bessette, Lyne; Dorval, Catherine – Online Submission, 2011
This collaborative research was carried out among 197 elementary school students, in the context of a rural Canadian school of the Quebec province. Several students of the school presented learning difficulties, mostly in writing. The teachers and the learning specialist decided to differentiate the groups in special subgroups of needs that met…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries