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Peer reviewedCarpenter, Thomas P.; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1996
Suggests that children enter school with a great deal of informal intuitive knowledge of mathematics that can serve as the basis for developing much of the formal mathematics of the primary school curriculum. Describes a research-based model of children's thinking that teachers can use to interpret, transform, and reframe their informal or…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Division
