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Direct linkHirsch, Jenna – MathAMATYC Educator, 2012
A facility with signed numbers forms the basis for effective problem solving throughout developmental mathematics. Most developmental mathematics textbooks explain signed number operations using absolute value, a method that involves considering the problem in several cases (same sign, opposite sign), and in the case of subtraction, rewriting the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Number Concepts, Number Systems, Numbers
