Abstract

Some years ago I examined several middle school students' understanding of numbers (Threadgill-Sowder 1984). The answers that students gave me during that study showed me that their understanding, developed largely through experiences in the elementary grades, was fuzzy and led me to undertake a decade of research on children's number sense in the elementary and middle school grades. I will set the stage for this article by sharing two of the questions I gave the students during that study and some of the responses I received.

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