How fragile is consolidated knowledge?

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 15-38

  Tsamir, Pessia ^a   Dreyfus, Tommy ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Comparison of infinite sets; Consolidation; Fragility of knowledge structures

Indexed keywords

EID: 14044268760     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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