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Early Fraction Learning

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Robert P. Hunting

    1. Institute of Mathematics Education, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

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  2. Gary Davis

    1. Institute of Mathematics Education, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

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Part of the book series: Recent Research in Psychology (PSYCHOLOGY)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert P. Hunting, Gary Davis
    Pages 1-8

  3. Pre-fraction Concepts of Preschoolers

    • Robert P. Hunting, Christopher F. Sharpley
    Pages 9-26

  4. Dimensions of Young Children’s Conceptions of the Fraction One Half

    • Robert P. Hunting, Gary E. Davis
    Pages 27-53

  5. The Social Origins of Pre-fraction Knowledge in Three Year Olds

    • Robert P. Hunting
    Pages 55-72

  6. Higher Order Thinking in Young Children’s Engagements with a Fraction Machine

    • Robert P. Hunting, Gary Davis, John C. Bigelow
    Pages 73-90

  7. Fractions as Operators and as Cloning Machines

    • Gary Davis
    Pages 91-101

  8. Preschoolers’ Knowledge of Counting and Sharing in Discrete Quantity Settings

    • Kristine L. Pepper
    Pages 103-129

  9. Preschoolers’ Spontaneous Partitioning of Discrete Items

    • Gary Davis, Robert P. Hunting
    Pages 131-136

  10. Cognitive Issues about Dealing

    • Gary Davis
    Pages 137-158

  11. Sharing by Dealing as Problem Solving

    • Gary Davis, Kristine L. Pepper
    Pages 159-170

  12. Cognitive Research on Early Fraction Learning Applied to Classrooms: Two Experiments

    • Robert P. Hunting, Douglas M. Clarke, Charles Lovitt, Kristine L. Pepper
    Pages 171-198

  13. The Interaction of Thought, Words, and Deeds in Children’s Early Fraction Learning

    • Robert P. Hunting
    Pages 199-207

  14. On Clinical Methods for Studying Young Children’s Mathematics

    • Gary Davis, Robert P. Hunting
    Pages 209-223

  15. A Fraction of Epistemology

    • Gary Davis
    Pages 225-236
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About this book

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?

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Mathematics Education, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia

    Robert P. Hunting, Gary Davis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Early Fraction Learning

  • Editors: Robert P. Hunting, Gary Davis

  • Series Title: Recent Research in Psychology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3194-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97641-9Published: 01 October 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3194-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7532

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 236

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Pedagogic Psychology, Mathematics Education

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