Improving secondary students' perception of the "dreaded mathematics word problem assignment" by giving them more word problems

Psychology in the Schools

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 319-325

  Wildmon, Mark E ^b   Skinner, Christopher H ^a   McCurdy, Merilee ^b   Sims, Sanpier ^b  

^a College of Education ^*  (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033164340     PISSN: 00333085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6807(199907)36:4<319::AID-PITS5>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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