The Quantitative Meaning of Fractions for Mexican Sixth-Grade Students

• Egile Nagusiak: José Luis Cortina Morfín (Egilea), Ericka Renata Cardoso Moreno (Egilea), Claudia Zúñiga Gaspar (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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<p class="p1">This study consisted in the application of questionnaires to 297 sixth-grade students from 13 different elementary schools in Mexico. Pupils were asked to identify the quantity represented by common fractions (e.g., 1/2, 1/4, 1/3, 3/4). Findings suggest that many studen...