Fractions

Common errors and misconceptions

4 aspects of fractions: ways learners understand fractions

• Part of a whole

• Part of a set

• Result of a division

• Point on a number line

Barnby (UK prev. Durham) Boulet (France)

Carpenter xx

Nunes (Oxford, UK)

Pape (Johns Hopkins, USA)

Rowland (Cambridge, UK)

Tall (Warwick,UK)