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This paper represents reflections about work with elementary school children and their teachers, and a small sample for illustration. Through this work there has evolved a repertoire of many topics that may begin, in a very literal sense, to extend children’s experience and help them begin to reduce it to order.
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Hawkins, D. (1995). The Grand Laws of Scale. In: Bernardini, C., Tarsitani, C., Vicentini, M. (eds) Thinking Physics for Teaching. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1921-8_12
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