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Autor/in | Murtaugh, Michael |
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Titel | The Practice of Arithmetic by American Grocery Shoppers. |
Quelle | In: Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 16 (1985) 3, S.186-92Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Arithmetic; Cognitive Style; Computation; Context Effect; Daily Living Skills; Mathematical Applications; Problem Solving |
Abstract | Presents and analyzes data on the arithmetic procedures people use when shopping for groceries in American supermarkets. Reports that the way shoppers solve problems is closely related to the way they formulate problems: supermarket arithmetic does not begin with a well-defined problem that calls for a specific numerical answer. (KH) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |