‘Plumber-girl’, ‘it's a boy's job’: the gendering of measurement activities in school mathematics

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Volumn 17, Issue 53, 2002, Pages 113-120

  VITHAL, RENUKA ^a,b  

^a School of Educational Studies at the University of Natal Westville ^*

^b School of Educational Studies at the University of Natal Westville   (South Africa)

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EID: 28044473627     PISSN: 10130950     EISSN: 2158978X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2002.9675922     Document Type: Article

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