Making sense of what students know: Examining the referents, relationships and modes students displayed in response to a decimal task

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 313-335

  Moskal, Barbara M ^a   Magone, Maria E ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Decimals; Mathematics; Middle school; Rational numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844272995     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011983602860     Document Type: Article

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