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Direct linkKribs-Zaleta, Christopher M. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2008
This article describes how sixth-grade students developed concrete models to solve division of fractions story problems. Students developed separate two-step procedures to solve measurement and partitive problems, drawing on invented procedures for division of whole numbers. Errors also tended to be specific to the type of division problem…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Grade 6, Mathematics Instruction
