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| Title: |
Young Children's Judgments About the Relative Size of Shared Portions: The Role of Material Type |
| Author: |
Wing, Rachel E. Beal, Carole R. |
| Appeared in: |
Mathematical thinking & learning |
| Paging: | Volume 6 (2004) nr. 1 pages 1-14 |
| Year: |
2004-01-01 |
| Contents: |
3 experiments were conducted to assess young (5-7 years) children's ability to judge the relative amount that a character would receive if sharing a material with 1 friend (halves) or 2 friends (thirds). Materials included items that appeared in 3 forms: continuous, discrete, and composite. In the first 2 experiments, performance was best with materials in composite form and worst with materials in continuous form. In a third experiment, children performed as well with large unorganized sets as with small organized sets, suggesting that they were not using a counting strategy. The results support suggestions that children enter school with informal knowledge about partitioning that may serve as a foundation for instruction in fractions concepts. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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