When the rules of discourse change, but nobody tells you: Making sense of mathematics learning from a commognitive standpoint

Journal of the Learning Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 565-613

  Sfard, Anna ^a,b,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c NONE   (Israel)

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EID: 41349107597     PISSN: 10508406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10508400701525253     Document Type: Article

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