Development of reasoning associated with pictographs: Representing, interpreting, and predicting

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 47-81

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive conflict; Interpretation of data; Longitudinal interviews; Pictograph; Prediction from data; Representation of data; School students

Indexed keywords

EID: 30244441270     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1015594414565     Document Type: Article

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