Proportional reasoning ability of school leavers aspiring to higher education in South Africa

The ability to reason about numbers in relative terms is essential for quantitative literacy, which is necessary for studying academic disciplines and for critical citizenship. However, the ability to reason with proportions is known to be difficult to learn and to take a long time to develop. To de...

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Main Authors: Vera Frith, Pam Lloyd
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2016-12-01
Series:Pythagoras
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Online Access:https://pythagoras.org.za/index.php/pythagoras/article/view/317