September 2017, Vol. 24, Issue 1
How Can Students Learn Fraction (De)Composition?
Rebecca R. Perry and Catherine C. Lewis
Examine with us how students “understand fractions as numbers” and “view fractions . . . as being built out of unit fractions”—two emphases of CCSSM.
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