Explanations of attitudes to change: Colombian mathematics teachers' conceptions of the crucial determinants of their teaching practices of beginning algebra

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 69-93

  Agudelo Valderrama, Cecilia ^a   Clarke, Barbara ^a   Bishop, Alan J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Conceptions; Mathematics teachers' attitudes; Practices; possibilities and barriers of teacher change; school algebra teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347388057     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-007-9031-2     Document Type: Article

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