Extending children's mathematics : fractions and decimals / Susan B. Empson, Linda Levi ; foreword by Thomas P. Carpenter.
Material type: TextPublisher: Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xxvi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0325030537
- 9780325030531
- 372.72 22
- QA117 .E47 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.
Introduction : issues in learning fractions and decimals : rethinking our approach -- Equal sharing problems and children's strategies for solving them -- From the classroom : getting started with fractions -- Multiple groups problems and children's strategies for solving them -- Relational thinking: connecting fractions and algebra -- From the classroom: making relational thinking explicit -- Understanding fraction equivalence and order -- Understanding decimals -- Understanding operations on fractions and decimals -- The long view : learning to use children's thinking to guide instruction.
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