Teaching Multiplication: An Analysis of Elementary School Mathematics Teachers' Manuals from Japan and the United States

Elementary School Journal

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Watanabe, Tad ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1542499733     PISSN: 00135984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/499745     Document Type: Article

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