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ERIC Number: EJ409323
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1990
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Children's Symbolic Representation of Addition and Subtraction Word Problems.
Bebout, Harriett C.
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, v21 n2 p123-31 Mar 1990
Investigated whether children who reflected the structure of word problems with their concrete models were successful in learning to symbolically represent problems with structure-based open number sentences. Forty-five first graders were taught to write canonical and noncanonical open number sentences. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Addition, Arithmetic, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 1, Interviews, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Numbers, Subtraction, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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