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Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairéad; McMahon, Áine – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2013
Quite a bit of the arithmetic in elementary school contains elements of algebraic reasoning. After researching and testing a number of instructional strategies with Irish third graders, these authors found effective methods for cultivating a relational concept of equality in third-grade students. Understanding equality is fundamental to algebraic…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic, Elementary School Mathematics, Algebra