Mental Representations of Fractions: Development, Stable State, Learning Difficulties and Intervention. Représentations mentales des fractions : développement, état stable, difficultés d’apprentissage et intervention.

Fractions are very hard to learn. As the joke goes, “Three out of two people have trouble with fractions”. Yet the invention of a notation for fractions is very ancient, dating back to Babylonians and Egyptians. Moreover, it is thought that ratio representation is innate. And obviously, fractions ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gabriel, Florence
Other Authors: Content, Alain
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2011
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Online Access:http://theses.ulb.ac.be/ETD-db/collection/available/ULBetd-05042011-115852/