Studying the classroom implementation of tasks: High-level mathematical tasks embedded in 'real-life' contexts

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 859-875

  Stylianides, Andreas J ^a   Stylianides, Gabriel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom teaching; Curriculum implementation; Mathematical reasoning; Mathematics education; Tasks; Textbooks

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849130106     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2007.11.015     Document Type: Article

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