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Fractions: A weeping sore in mathematics education

Nerida Ellerton and Ken Clements
Abstract: 

In four different countries, including our own, the same problems keep cropping up - children do not connect simple tasks, such as sharing, with the written fractions they meet in class. Research and good advice therefrom.

DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.18296/set.0951
Journal issue: 
set 1994: no. 2

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