Teachers should “talk” mathematics with their students more often. The key premises of this paper are (I) that teachers can more effectively help children learn arithmetic if they understand what a child knows, (2) that this understanding is best arrived at through dialogue with children, and (3) that the dialogues themselves are valuable instructional episodes.
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