RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
Go-to Strategies Used by Undergraduate Developmental Mathematics Students to Support Their Fraction Understandings
Page: 842
Difficulties with fractions are well-documented for undergraduate developmental mathematics students. As such, fractions are a known gatekeeping topic for this demographic. However, research on fraction understandings for this population is scarce. In this paper, I synthesize relevant literature regarding undergraduate developmental fraction understandings and related K–12 fraction literature. I then report findings from task-based clinical interviews to share examples of various go-to strategies these participants utilized as they worked through fraction tasks. I close with a discussion relating these findings to extant literature and propose future research directions.