Teachers' personal agency: Making sense of slope through additive structures

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-233

  Walter, Janet G ^a   Gerson, Hope ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Choice; Collaborative learning; Elementary school teachers; Grounded theory; Performance; Professional development; Rate of change; Representation; Rise over run; Slope

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846688665     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-9048-y     Document Type: Article

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