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David W. Carraher
Researcher at Federal University of Pernambuco
Publications - 31
Citations - 3366
David W. Carraher is an academic researcher from Federal University of Pernambuco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Early Algebra & Connected Mathematics. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 30 publications receiving 3216 citations.
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Mathematics as personal and social activity
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A compreensão de frações como magnitude relativa
TL;DR: A study done by 60 alunos de a quinta serie a problemas apresentados em duas versoes (uma literal, outra relativa) revealed uma forte tendencia a identificar o numerador e o denominador como indicating, respectivamente, o numero de elementos marcados and o numerero total of elementos in a conjunto (versao literal) as mentioned in this paper.
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Teacher Development Structured Around Reasoning About Functions
TL;DR: In this article, a teacher development program aimed at improving mathematics teaching and learning from grades 5-9 was presented, which was designed to promote a deep understanding of mathematics while drawing upon students' spontaneous reasoning, generalizations, representations, and discussions about relations between physical quantities and numbers.
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Learning to Quantify Relationships Among Weight, Size, and Kind of Material
TL;DR: In a 1-hour teaching interview, 20 children (aged 7 to 11) discovered how to tell whether objects might be made of the same material by using ratios of measures of weight and size as mentioned in this paper.