Middle grade teachers' learning through students' engagement with modeling tasks

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-32

  Doerr, Helen M ^a   English, Lyn D ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Middle grades; Modeling; Task features; Teacher development; Teacher learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746385417     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-006-9004-x     Document Type: Article

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