Korean and US preservice elementary teachers' conceptions about teaching word problem solving

Journal of Education for Teaching

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-175

  Hong, Eunsook ^a  

^a UNLV College of Education   (United States)

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EID: 44649139572     PISSN: 02607476     EISSN: 13600540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02607479819854     Document Type: Article

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