Children's Fractional Knowledge

by Leslie P. Steffe and John Olive

Book Overview

Children's Fractional Knowledge elegantly tracks the construction of knowledge, both by children learning new methods of reasoning and by the researchers studying their methods. The book challenges the widely held belief that children's whole number knowledge is a distraction from their learning of fractions by positing that their fractional learning involves reorganizing-not simply using or building upon-their whole number knowledge. This hypothesis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1489984666
• ISBN13: 9781489984661
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"