Mathematizing verbal descriptions of situations: A language to support modeling

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 207-264

  Yerushalmy, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 0041161308     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532690xci1502_3     Document Type: Article

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