Title: Subtraction: Decomposition versus Equal Addends
Abstract: At the end of each academic year at the University of British Columbia, the author teaches mathematics in some elementary school for two months. While he is in the school, there are many informal discussions with teachers concerning mathematics education. The inability of many students to do basic computation has long been a complaint of teachers. In a discussion centering on computational algorithms, subtraction requiring regrouping was identified as one area where teachers wanted some alternati
Publication Year: 1979
Publication Date: 1979-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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