Contrasting perspectives and performance of high school students on problem solving in real world, situated, and school contexts

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 283-301

  Jurdak, Murad Eid ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Activity system; Activity theory; Problem solving; Real world context; School context; Situated problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749572181     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-005-9008-y     Document Type: Article

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