The role of content knowledge and problem features on preservice teachers' appraisal of elementary mathematics tasks

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 347-380

  Osana, Helena P ^a   Lacroix, Guy L ^a   Tucker, Bradley J ^a   Desrosiers, Chantal ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cognitive complexity; Mathematics content knowledge; Preservice teacher education; Preservice teacher thinking; Surface versus deep features of mathematics problems

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845224655     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-006-4084-1     Document Type: Article

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