Learning Fractions at a Community College
This paper deals with the process of learning fractions by adult students attending courses of remedial mathematics at community colleges in the Bronx, New York City. It investigates the schema of fractions with the help of the model created by (Charalambos and Pitta-Pantazi, 2007), which is based on the work of Kiernan and the assumption that the fraction schema is composed of five subconstructs, a fundamental part whole subconstruct and four subordinate subconstracts: ratio, quotient, operator...