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Braithwaite, David W.; Siegler, Robert S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Many students' knowledge of fractions is adversely affected by whole number bias, the tendency to focus on the separate whole number components (numerator and denominator) of a fraction rather than on the fraction's integrated magnitude (ratio of numerator to denominator). Although whole number bias appears early in the fraction learning process…
Descriptors: Numbers, Bias, Fractions, Age Differences