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• Title:Extending children's mathematics : fractions and decimals / Susan B. Empson, Linda Levi ; foreword by Thomas P. Carpenter.
  
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• Author/Creator:Empson, Susan B.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Levi, Linda.
  
• Published/Created:Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2011.
  

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  • Call Number: QA117 .E47 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY curriculumWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA117 .E47 2011
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Fractions--Study and teaching (Elementary)
  Decimal fractions--Study and teaching (Elementary)
  Fractions--Study and teaching (Middle school)
  Decimal fractions--Study and teaching (Middle school)
  
• Description:xxvi, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780325030531 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  0325030537 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  
• Contents:Introduction : issues in learning fractions and decimals : rethinking our approach
  Equal sharing problems and children's strategies for solving them
  From the classroom : getting started with fractions
  Multiple groups problems and children's strategies for solving them
  Relational thinking: connecting fractions and algebra
  From the classroom: making relational thinking explicit
  Understanding fraction equivalence and order
  Understanding decimals
  Understanding operations on fractions and decimals
  The long view : learning to use children's thinking to guide instruction.