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Peer reviewedHartnett, Patrice; Gelman, Rochel – Learning and Instruction, 1998
Two studies involving 110 and 91 children aged 5 to 7 years show that children's knowledge of counting and addition facilitated their acquisition of a concept not taught in school, that every number has a natural successor (Successor Principle). Even the oldest children could not rank order correctly numbers that contained fractional notations.…
Descriptors: Addition, Age Differences, Computation, Concept Formation
Direct linkBaig, Shahida; Halai, Anjum – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2006
This research focused on students' learning of mathematical rules with reasoning. A small group of students (age 11-12 yrs) was observed closely by the first author as she taught them fraction rules. The area of focus was fractions and activities were designed pertaining to the four rules of fractions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standards, Mathematical Logic, Preadolescents
Download full textBergeron, Jacques C., Ed.; And Others – 1987
The Proceedings of PME-XI has been published in three separate volumes because of the large total of 161 individual conference papers reported. Volume I contains four plenary papers, all on the subject of "constructivism," and 44 commented papers arranged under 4 themes. Volume II contains 56 papers (39 commented; 17 uncommented)…
Descriptors: Addition, Affective Behavior, Algebra, Arithmetic
