Teaching Arithmetic: The Early Stages.

Retkin, Eva

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Teaching Arithmetic: The Early Stages

Retkin, Eva

Mathematics in School, 7, 1, 26, Jan 78

The author urges that subtraction be introduced by "taking away" rather than by equal addition; multiplication be first demonstrated in sets; division be understood as sharing; and unit fractions be denoted at first by using the written word for denominator. (MN)

Descriptors: Division, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions, Instruction, Mathematics Education, Multiplication, Subtraction, Teaching Methods

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