edited by Gaea Leinhardt, Ralph Putnam, Rosemary A. Hattrup
xiii, 454 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Making sense of numbers in school mathematics / Judith T. Sowder -- Research on learning and teaching addition and subtraction of whole numbers / Karen C. Fuson -- Solving multiplication word problems / Pearla Nesher -- Teaching and learning long division for understanding in school / Magdalene Lampert -- Mathematical, cognitive, and instructional analyses of decimal fractions / James Hiebert -- Rational and fractional numbers as mathematical and personal knowledge : implications for curriculum and instruction / Thomas E. Kieren -- From protoquantities to operators : building mathematical competence on a foundation of everyday knowledge / Lauren B. Resnick -- Epilogue / Marilyn Rauth and Lovely Billups