A Class of Fractions adding how Pupils wish

2022/11/08 by Martin Himmel, Himmel, Martin
Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Mathematics Education and Pedagogy #Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills #Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2211.12844

Abstract

Motivated by children inventing creatively laws on how to add or multiply fractions, we introduce four fraction operations and discover some of their properties.

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