Number concept and conceptual change: Towards a systemic model of the processes of change

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 14, Issue 5 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 519-534

  Merenluoto, Kaarina ^a   Lehtinen, Erno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Certainty; Cognitive distance; Conceptual change; Metacognition; Motivation; Number concept; Tolerance of ambiguity

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844264286     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2004.06.016     Document Type: Article

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