Parts of the Whole: The Having of Wonderful Ideas: Eleanor Duckworth Introduces Us to Piaget

The small book of essays by Eleanor Duckworth has been a staple of teacher education for decades, serving as a bridge between Piaget’s observations of infants and the needs of the classroom. As her examples tend to be of young children, we consider more general ideas in the context of older grades a...

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Main Author: Dorothy Wallace
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Language:English
Published: National Numeracy Network 2020-01-01
Series:Numeracy
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol13/iss1/art10
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