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Pioneer 2005
No full textThe annual student yearbook was first published in 1925 as "The Kokoon" when William Paterson University was Paterson State Normal School. The title changed over time but has been "The Pioneer" since 1941
William Paterson University
Get PDFPictorial history of William Paterson University of New Jersey. Part of the "Campus History Series"
Extending and refining models for thinking about division of fractions
Get PDFThis paper was presented at the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education.Many students experience great difficulty when studying topics related to fractions, especially division of fractions. One explanation for this may be that learning how to divide fractions is often taught devoid of meaning. The lack of sense making in carrying out algorithms without making connections to concrete or other types of representations contributes to the inability of students to use previously taught algorithms to solve new problems, especially after long periods of time have elapsed. In this paper we explore the flexibility and durability of knowledge that students acquire when they study this topic in a way that encourages understanding
