Intuitive rules: A way to explain and predict students' reasoning

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 38, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 51-66

  Tirosh, Dina ^a   Stavy, Ruth ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0041579531     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1584-3_3     Document Type: Article

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