Connecting beliefs and practices: A fine-grained analysis of a college mathematics teacher's collections of beliefs and their relationship to his instructional practices

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 218-267

  Speer, Natasha M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 42149130860     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370000801980944     Document Type: Article

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