Understanding the role of measurements in creating physical quantities: A case study of learning to quantify temperature in physics teacher education

Science and Education

Volumn 16, Issue 3-5, 2007, Pages 291-311

  Mäntylä, Terhi ^a   Koponen, Ismo T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Didactical reconstruction; Measurements; Teacher education; Temperature

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248231965     PISSN: 09267220     EISSN: 15731901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11191-006-9021-2     Document Type: Article

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