Building teacher capacity for implementing curricular coherence: Mathematics teacher professional development tasks

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 10, Issue 4-6, 2007, Pages 311-324

  Ferrini Mundy, Joan ^a   Burrill, Gail ^a   Schmidt, William H ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curricular coherence; Curricular trajectories; Mathematical tasks; Teacher professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 37449029666     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-007-9053-9     Document Type: Article

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