School mathematics and its everyday other? Revisiting Lave's 'Cognition in Practice'

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-21

  Greiffenhagen, Christian ^a   Sharrock, Wes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Everyday mathematics; Jean Lave; School mathematics; Situated learning; Street mathematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649109693     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-008-9115-7     Document Type: Article

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