Cross-national comparison of representational competence

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 541-557

  Brenner, Mary E ^a   Herman, Sally ^a   Ho, Hsiu Zu ^a   Zimmer, Jules M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural studies; Middle grades, 5 8; Problem solving; Rational number representations; Representations, modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844454329     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749773     Document Type: Review

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