Practitioner's Research: A Study in Changing Preservice Teachers’ Conceptions About Mathematics and Mathematics Teaching and Learning

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 184-191

  Steele, Diana F ^a   Widman, Teresa Fehrs ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 0346087202     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1997.tb17365.x     Document Type: Article

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