Three Utilities for the Equal Sign [electronic resource] / Ian Jones and Dave Pratt.

We compare the activity of young children using a microworld and a JavaScript relational calculator with the literature on children using traditional calculators. We describe how the children constructed different meanings for the equal sign in each setting. It appears that the nature of the meaning...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Jones, Ian
Other Authors:	Pratt, Dave
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2005.
Subjects:	Calculators. Educational Technology. Young Children. Mathematical Concepts. Early Adolescents. Middle School Students. Secondary School Mathematics. Mathematical Logic. Foreign Countries.