Comparing US and Japanese elementary school teachers' facility for linking rational number representations

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 165-185

  Moseley, Bryan James ^a   Okamoto, Yukari ^b   Ishida, Junichi ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Cross national research; Ethnography; Rational number understanding; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846002306     PISSN: 15710068     EISSN: 15731774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10763-006-9040-0     Document Type: Article

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