Rational Numbers and Rationality: What Are We Learning and What Needs to Be Done?.

Kaput, Jim

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ERIC Number: EJ495286

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Publication Date: 1994

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Rational Numbers and Rationality: What Are We Learning and What Needs to Be Done?

Kaput, Jim

Journal of Research in Childhood Education, v8 n2 p142-49 Spr-Sum 1994

Comments on the Fraction Project presented in this same issue. Examines the choice of appropriate perspectives on the phenomena induced and observed and the generalizability of the results. Investigates the phenomena as involving student attunement to constraints built into the computer-based learning environments and in terms of explicit representational features designers built into those environments. (AA)

Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Materials, Number Concepts, Problem Solving

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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