Research into Practice: Children's Strategies in Ordering Rational Numbers.

Lappan, Glenda, Ed.

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ERIC Number: EJ361623

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1987

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Research into Practice: Children's Strategies in Ordering Rational Numbers.

Lappan, Glenda, Ed.

Arithmetic Teacher, v35 n2 p33-35 Oct 1987

Described are children's strategies in thinking about fraction order and equivalence. The data are based on two teaching experiments with fourth and fifth-grade children. Some sample activities for teaching order and equivalence are included. (RH)

Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions, Grade 4, Grade 5, Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts, Rational Numbers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Researchers; Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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