Malawian students' meanings for probability vocabulary

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-189

  Kazima, Mercy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Language; Malawi; Mathematical English; Probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845656425     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-9032-6     Document Type: Article

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