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Posing problems to understand children's learning of fractions
Cheng Lu Pien
36th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of
Australasia Incorporated (MERGA 2013) on “Mathematics education:
Yesterday, today and tomorrow”, Melbourne, Australia, 7 – 11 July 2013
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any part of it may not be duplicated and/or distributed without permission of the copyright
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