Using tasks to explore teacher knowledge in situation-specific contexts

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 10, Issue 4-6, 2007, Pages 301-309

  Biza, Irene ^a   Nardi, Elena ^b   Zachariades, Theodossios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolute value; Algebra; Task; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349026702     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-007-9043-y     Document Type: Article

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