Promoting reinvention of a multiplication-of-fractions algorithm: A study of the Learning Through Activity research program
Whereas proficiency in performing the canonic multiplication-of-fractions algorithm is common, understanding of the algorithm is much less so. We conducted a teaching experiment with a fifth-grade student, based on an initial hypothetical learning trajectory (HLT), to promote reinvention of the mult...
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| Language: | English |
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Elsevier Inc.
2018
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