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ERIC Number: EJ504007
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-1072-0839
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What Is the Whole?
Wentworth, Nancy M.; Monroe, Eula Ewing
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, v1 n5 p356-60 Apr-May 1995
Discusses ways teachers can encourage students to construct useful meanings for the fractional unit. Provides three examples of representations of common fractions and illustrates misconceptions in fraction problems. Includes a brief summary of constructivist mathematics education and an example in which a teacher misunderstands a fractional unit. (DDD)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
Language: English
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