Making sense of instructional devices: The emergence of transparency in mathematical activity

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-142

  Meira, Luciano ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Functions; Instructional technology; Manipulatives; Middle grades, 5 8; Patterns, relationships in mathematics; Protocol analysis; Representations, modeling; Social and cultural issues

Indexed keywords

EID: 21944432729     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749895     Document Type: Article

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