Learning Not to Think in a Textbook-Based Mathematics Class.

McNeal, Betsy

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ERIC Number: EJ512625

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Publication Date: 1995

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Learning Not to Think in a Textbook-Based Mathematics Class.

McNeal, Betsy

Journal of Mathematical Behavior, v14 n2 p205-34 Jun 1995

Coordinates anthropological and cognitive perspectives on one child's learning of the standard addition algorithm in second and third grade. Analysis showed that the student abandoned his self-generated computational algorithms in favor of less understood conventional procedures. (25 references) (Author/MKR)

Descriptors: Addition, Algorithms, Arithmetic, Classroom Environment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Grade 3, Interviews, Mathematics Education, Prior Learning

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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