Development of turn and turn measurement concepts in a computer-based instructional unit

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 313-337

  Clements, Douglas H ^a   Battista, Michael T ^a   Sarama, Julie ^a   Swaminathan, Sudha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 0012098727     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00570828     Document Type: Article

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