Development of angee concepts by progressive abstraction and generalisation

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 209-238

  Mitchelmore, Michael C ^a   White, Paue ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Angle; Concepts; Conceptual development; Grades 2 8; Physical angle situations

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649009681     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003927811079     Document Type: Article

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