Merlyn J. Behr, Ipke Wachsmuth, Thomas R. Post, Richard Lesh, Order and Equivalence of Rational Numbers: A Clinical Teaching Experiment, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 15, No. 5 (Nov., 1984), pp. 323-341
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