Investigating Proportional Reasoning in a University Quantitative Literacy Course
The ability to reason with proportions is known to take a long time to develop and to be difficult to learn. We regard proportional reasoning (the ability to reason about quantities in relative terms) as a threshold concept for academic quantitative literacy. Our study of the teaching and learning o...
Main Authors: | Vera Frith, Pam Lloyd |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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National Numeracy Network
2016-01-01
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Series: | Numeracy |
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Online Access: | http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol9/iss1/art3/ |
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