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Charron, Camilo – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
165 students, from the fifth, seventh and ninth grades were asked to solve written problems involving fractions. In the problems a reference quantity (RQ) was multiplied by a fraction (FR), yielding the value of a compared quantity (CQ). The fraction expressed either an part-whole ratio (PW), or a part-part ratio (PP). Six type of problems were…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Early Adolescents, Grade 5, Grade 7