Situation model, Text base and what else? Factors affecting problem solving

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-176

  Nesher, Perala ^a   Hershkovitz, Sara ^b   Novotna, Jarmila ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Center for Educational Technology   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Comparison relation; Complexity; More less; Multiplicative comparison; Reference; Scheme; Text base; Two step word problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044461967     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024028430965     Document Type: Article

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