The impact of preservice teachers' content knowledge on their evaluation of students' strategies for solving arithmetic and algebra word problems

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 319-351

  Van Dooren, Wim ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a   Onghena, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Algebra; Arithmetic; Preservice teacher education; Problem solving; Teacher beliefs; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036861468     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4149957     Document Type: Article

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