Grounding metaphors and inscriptional resonance: Children's emerging understanding of mathematical similarity

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 359-398

  Lehrer, Richard ^a,c   Strom, Dolores ^a   Confrey, Jere ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0038662984     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S1532690XCI2003_3     Document Type: Article

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