A Componential View of Children’s Difficulties in Learning Fractions

A Componential View of Children’s Difficulties in Learning Fractions

Fractions are well known to be difficult to learn. Various hypotheses have been proposed in order to explain those difficulties: fractions can denote different concepts; their understanding requires a conceptual reorganisation with regard to natural numbers; and using fractions involves the articula...

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Main Authors: Florence Claude Gabriel, Frédéric eCoché, Denes eSzucs, Vincent eCarette, Bernard eRey, Alain eContent
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
equivalence
fractions
Proportion
Part-Whole
Arithmetic Operations
Fraction Subcontructs
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00715/full

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