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Peer reviewedSinger, Janice Ann; Resnick, Lauren B. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
Describes a study to determine middle school children's representational strategies to form part-whole or part-part relationships for relational numbers such as proportions, ratios, or fractions. Quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed that children prefer a part-part representation to solve relational quantity problems. (15 references)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Strategies, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education
