Fine grain assessment of students' mathematical understanding: Participatory and anticipatory stagesin learning a new mathematical conception

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 273-291

  Tzur, Ron ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity effect relationship; Anticipation; Assessment; Children's conceptions; Constructivist theory; Fractions; Problem situations; Tasks; Teaching activities; Teaching experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548473346     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-007-9082-4     Document Type: Article

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