Learning to pose mathematical problems: Exploring changes in preservice teachers' practices

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-270

  Crespo, Sandra ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning to teach mathematics; Preservice teachers' learning; Problem posing practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747698511     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024364304664     Document Type: Review

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