February 1997, Vol. 3, Issue 6
Mathematics of Change: Ins and Outs or Ups and Downs
Cornelia C. Tierney and Ricardo Nemirovsky
An activity with variations that are useful throughout the elementary grades that involve children using small numbers to do a sequence of additions and subtractions the authors call "changes".
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