Prospective teachers' reactions to Right-or-Wrong tasks: The case of derivatives of absolute value functions

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 240-251

  Tsamir, Pessia ^a   Rasslan, Shaker ^b   Dreyfus, Tommy ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b School for Gifted and Excellent Students   (Israel)

Author keywords

Absolute value function; Derivative; Right or Wrong tasks; Task design

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751334576     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2006.09.001     Document Type: Article

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