Students' operations with the weight concept

Science Education

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 457-487

  Galili, Igal ^a   Kaplan, Dov ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 0030534829     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-237X(199607)80:4<457::AID-SCE5>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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