Didactics and history of mathematics: Knowledge and self-knowledge

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 203-223

  Fried, Michael N ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Conflicting and complementary epistemologies; Diachrony; Mathematical self knowledge; Synchrony

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548711848     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-9025-5     Document Type: Review

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