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C. Mauritz Lindvall, Cheryl Gibbons Ibarra, Incorrect Procedures Used by Primary Grade Pupils in Solving Open Addition and Subtraction Sentences, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 1980), pp. 50-62
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