Developing concepts of sampling

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 44-70

  Watson, Jane M ^a   Moritz, Jonathan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children's strategies; Cognitive development; Intermediate middle grades; Qualitative methods; Statistics; Stochastics

Indexed keywords

EID: 22844455826     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749819     Document Type: Article

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