Alternative approaches to teaching, learning and assessing mathematics

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 129-141

  Boaler, Jo ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Pedagogy; Problem solving; Situated cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039394049     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7189(98)00002-0     Document Type: Article

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