Signs and meanings in students' emergent aegebraic thinking: A semiotic analysis

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 237-268

  Radford, Luis ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Generalization; Semiotic cultural approach to algebraic thinking; Signs and meanings; Social means of semiotic objectification; Symbolization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042173905     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017530828058     Document Type: Article

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