Teaching children how to include the inversion principle in their reasoning about quantitative relations

The basis of this intervention study is a distinction between numerical calculus and relational calculus. The former refers to numerical calculations and the latter to the analysis of the quantitative relations in mathematical problems. The inverse relation between addition and subtraction is releva...

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Main Authors: Nunes, T, Bryant, P, Evans, D, Bell, D, Barros, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012