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Ebby, Caroline Brayer – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2005
This study examines one child's use of computational procedures over a period of 3 years in an urban elementary school where teachers were using a standards-based curriculum. From a sociocultural perspective, the use of standard algorithms to solve mathematical problems is viewed as a cultural tool that both enables and constrains particular…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Number Systems, Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts