Distributivity: A Useful Model or an Abstract Entity?.

Blume, Glendon W.; Mitchell, Charles E.

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Publication Date: 1983-Mar

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Distributivity: A Useful Model or an Abstract Entity?

Blume, Glendon W.; Mitchell, Charles E.

School Science and Mathematics, v83 n3 p216-21 Mar 1983

Current practices in teaching about distributivity of multiplication over addition and subtraction are reviewed. Then a study is described in which two inventories were administered to 83 eighth-grade students; scores were low. Suggestions for teaching distributivity are presented. (MNS)

Descriptors: Computation, Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication, Problem Solving, Secondary School Mathematics

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