Preservice Teachers Ordering of Decimal Numbers: When More Is Smaller and Less Is Larger!.

Putt, Ian John

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ERIC Number: EJ520583

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Publication Date: 1995

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Preservice Teachers Ordering of Decimal Numbers: When More Is Smaller and Less Is Larger!

Putt, Ian John

Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, v17 n3 p1-15 Sum 1995

Elementary and middle school education majors in Australia (n=326) and the United States (n=378) were asked to arrange a list of decimals in order from smallest to largest. Only about half of these preservice teachers in each country were able to complete the task correctly. (MKR)

Descriptors: Decimal Fractions, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interviews, Number Concepts

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Australia; United States

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