TY - GEN AU - Molina González, Marta AU - Ambrose, Rebecca PY - 2008 SN - 0272-8893 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/4721 AB - We describe a teaching experiment about third grade students´ understanding of the equal sign and their initial forays into analyzing expressions. We used true/false and open number sentences in forms unfamiliar to the students to cause students to... LA - en PB - Research Council on Mathematics Learning KW - Algebraic thinking KW - Analyzing expressions KW - Arithmetic equations KW - Early-Algebra KW - Equal sign KW - Number sentences KW - Relational thinking TI - From an operational to a relational conception of the equal sign. Thirds graders’ developing algebraic thinking. ER -