Reflective abstraction, uniframes and the formulation of generalizations

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 205-222

  Sriraman, Bharath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Combinatorics; Generalization; Mathematical structures; Problem solving; Reflection; Uniframes

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942530299     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2004.03.005     Document Type: Article

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