Perceiving the general: The multisemiotic dimension of students' algebraic activity

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 507-530

  Radford, Luis ^b   Bardini, Caroline ^b   Sabena, Cristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algebra; Classroom interaction; Communication; Language and mathematics; Linguistics; Patterns; Relationships in mathematics; Vygotsky

Indexed keywords

EID: 36249029888     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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