| Description |
xxviii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series, reform in mathematics education |
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SUNY series, reform in mathematics education.
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| Contents |
1. Children's Multiplying Schemes / Leslie Steffe -- 2. Multiplicative Conceptual Field: What and Why? / Gerard Vergnaud -- 3. Extending the Meaning of Multiplication and Division / Brian Greer -- 4. Ratio and Proportion: Cognitive Foundations in Unitizing and Norming / Susan Lamon -- 5. Units of Quantity: A Conceptual Basis Common to Additive and Multiplicative Structures / Merlyn Behr, Guershon Harel, Thomas Post and Richard Lesh -- 6. The Development of the Concept of Speed and Its Relationship to Concepts of Rate / Patrick Thompson -- 7. Missing-Value Proportional Reasoning Problems: Factors Affecting Informal Reasoning Patterns / James Kaput and Mary Maxwell West -- 8. Splitting, Similarity, and Rate of Change: A New Approach to Multiplication and Exponential Functions / Jere Confrey -- 9. Multiplicative Structures and the Development of Logarithms: What Was Lost by the Invention of Function? / Erick Smith and Jere Confrey |
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10. The Impact of the Number Type on the Solution of Multiplication and Division Problems: Further Investigations / Guershon Harel, Merlyn Behr, Thomas Post and Richard Lesh -- 11. Multiple Views of Multiplicative Structures / Thomas Kieren |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Division.
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Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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Mathemgtics -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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Multiplication.
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| Author |
Confrey, Jere.
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Harel, Guershon, 1952-
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| LC no. |
93019443 |
| ISBN |
0791417638 (acid-free) |
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0791417646 (paperback: acid-free) |
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