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Cai, Jinfa; Silver, Edward A. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1995
Only 25% of fifth- and sixth-grade Chinese students (n=186) correctly solved a division-with-remainder computation task, about the same success rate as with American students, and only one-sixth of the students could interpret the result. (MKR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies, Division, Elementary School Students