August 2016, Vol. 23, Issue 1
When the Answer Is the Question
Vanessa M. Battreal, Vanessa Brewster, and Juli K. Dixon
Using donuts to contextualize and enrich mathematical discourse can sweeten students’ understanding of how to interpret the remainder in a division problem.
How might you expect fifth-grade students to answer the question in this task:
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