Early Fraction Learning

(Recent Research in Psychology)

 Robert Hunting e  Gary Davis

Springer | 1991 | 244 páginas | pdf | 9,1 Mb

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Early Fraction learning is centrally of interest to students and researchersin mathematics education, tackling as it does one of that discipline's most vexing problems: why are fractions so difficult to learn and to teach?

Contents
Introduction
Robert P. Hunting, Gary Davis
Pre-fraction Concepts of Preschoolers
Robert P. Hunting, Christopher F. Sharpley
Dimensions of Young Children’s Conceptions of the Fraction One Half
Robert P. Hunting, Gary E. Davis
The Social Origins of Pre-fraction Knowledge in Three Year Olds
Robert P. Hunting
Higher Order Thinking in Young Children’s Engagements with a Fraction Machine
Robert P. Hunting, Gary Davis, John C. Bigelow
Fractions as Operators and as Cloning Machines
Gary Davis
Preschoolers’ Knowledge of Counting and Sharing in Discrete Quantity Settings
Kristine L. Pepper
Preschoolers’ Spontaneous Partitioning of Discrete Items
Gary Davis, Robert P. Hunting
Cognitive Issues about Dealing
Gary Davis
Sharing by Dealing as Problem Solving
Gary Davis, Kristine L. Pepper
Cognitive Research on Early Fraction Learning Applied to Classrooms: Two Experiments
Robert P. Hunting, Douglas M. Clarke, Charles Lovitt
The Interaction of Thought, Words, and Deeds in Children’s Early Fraction Learning
Robert P. Hunting
On Clinical Methods for Studying Young Children’s Mathematics
Gary Davis, Robert P. Hunting
A Fraction of Epistemology

Gary Davis