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Peer reviewedPinchback, Carolyn L. – Gifted Child Today, 2001
A study introduced a mathematics text that combines real math and science in a fictional context to six gifted sixth-graders. Responses to four questions by the students are provided. Results indicate that using prose writing in mathematics is a fruitful means of assessment in mathematics. (Contains seven references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Gifted, Grade 6
