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Comparison helps students learn to be better estimators

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2010

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Star, Jon R., Martina Kenyon, Rebecca Joiner, and Bethany Rittle-Johnson. 2010. Comparison helps students learn to be better estimators. Teaching Children Mathematics, 16, no. 9: 557-563.

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This article describes a recent research study that examined the effectiveness of comparison on students’ learning of strategies and concepts for computational estimation.

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