Abstraction and consolidation

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 233-258

  Monaghan, John ^a   Ozmantar, Mehmet Fatih ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolute value functions; Abstraction; Activity; Consolidation; Construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747643586     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-8753-x     Document Type: Article

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