The notion of historical "parallelism" revisited: Historical evolution and students' conception of the order relation on the number line

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 165-183

  Thomaidis, Yannis ^a   Tzanakis, Constantinos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Historical parallelism; History in mathematics education; Number line; Ontogeny; Order relation; Phylogeny; Students' conceptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548785599     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-9077-6     Document Type: Review

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