Anna O. Graeber, Dina Tirosh, Roseanne Glover, Preservice Teachers' Misconceptions in Solving Verbal Problems in Multiplication and Division, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 95-102
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