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ERIC Number: EJ312692
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1985
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Computation Routines Prescribed by Schools: Help or Hindrance?
Carraher, Terezinha Nunes; Schliemann, Analucia Dias
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, v16 n1 p37-44 Jan 1985
Fifty Brazilian children aged seven-13 were individually given addition and subtraction exercises. Counting was the preferred procedure, with use of school-taught algorithms limited. Some children decomposed numbers into tens and units and then worked at both levels. They rarely referred to previous results when doing related exercises. (MNS)
Descriptors: Addition, Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Subtraction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Brazil; Counting; Mathematics Education Research