Learning opportunities from group discussions: Warrants become the objects of debate

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 247-261

  Weber, Keith ^a   Maher, Carolyn ^a   Powell, Arthur ^a   Lee, Hollylynne Stohl ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Discussion; Mathematics education; Probability; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 44349157066     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-008-9114-8     Document Type: Article

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