Elementary preservice teachers' changing beliefs and instructional use of children's mathematical thinking

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-110

  Vacc, Nancy Nesbitt ^a   Bright, George W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Children's strategies; Constructivism; Early childhood, K 4; Pedagogical knowledge; Planning, decision making; Preservice teacher education; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 22444456317     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749631     Document Type: Article

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