Prevailing educational practices for area measurement and students’ failure in measuring areas

By Konstantinos Zacharos. 2006

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Subfields: Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Conceptual Limitations in Curricular Presentations of Area Measurement: One Nation’s Challenges (2016, background): “Students may overgeneralize “length times width” as the meaning of area (Schifter & Szymaszek, 2003); produce area measures by additively combining lengths, widths, or heights (Lehrer et al., 1998; Zacharos, 2006); or simply answer questions about areas with numbers without units (Clements & Sarama,”