Reaching back to advance forward: towards a 21st century approach to learning and teaching fractions

Besides their usefulness in practical, everyday activities, understanding fractions and operations on fractions underpins the development of proportional reasoning and is critical for learning higher mathematics such as algebra, probability, and calculus and for success in science and engineering. N...

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Main Author: Arthur Belford Powell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2018-07-01
Series:Perspectiva
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/perspectiva/article/view/52770