Children’s Fractional Knowledge

• Main Authors: Steffe, Leslie P. (Author), Olive, John (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Education.; Number theory.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Number Theory.

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...