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- Title
- One-third is three-quarters of one-half
- Related
- Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Conference (29th : 2006) (1 - 5 July 2006 : Canberra, ACT)
- Related
- Grootenboer, Peter; Zevenbergen, Robyn and Chinnappan, Mohan. Identities, cultures and learning spaces : proceedings of the 29th annual conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, held at Rydges Lakeside Hotel, Canberra, 1-5 July 2006, p.262-269
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- http://www.merga.net.au/documents/RP282006.pdf
- Publisher
- Adelaide, S. Aust : MERGA
- Date
- 2006
- FoR/RFCD Code(s)
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130200 Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Author/Creator
- Gould, Peter
- Author/Creator
- Outhred, Lynne
- Author/Creator
- Mitchelmore, Michael
- Description
- This paper reports on part of a larger cross-sectional study of the development of students’ quantitative concepts of fractions. In total, 1676 students in Years 4–8 were asked a series of questions designed to elicit their concept images of various fractions. Three questions asked the students to construct a regional model (parts of a circle) for one-half, one-third and one-sixth. The initial analysis of the evoked concept image of one-third revealed an unexpectedly high number of responses shading one-quarter of a circle. Further analysis suggested that what appeared to be one-quarter was frequently intended to be one of three parts, confirming that drawings frequently do not “speak for themselves”. Area is not always the intended feature of regional models of fractions in students’ concept images and it is argued that the “number of pieces” interpretation is a common response to regional models of fractions.
- Description
- 8 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 130200 Curriculum and Pedagogy
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. School of Education
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/106773
- Identifier
- ISBN:1920846123
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2006000625
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia Incorporated. Original published at http://www.merga.net.au/node/38?year=2006. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further reproduction rights please contact the publisher at http://www.merga.net.au
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