Beyond 'blaming the victim' and 'standing in awe of noble savages': A response to "revisiting Lave's 'cognition in practice'"

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-32

  Carraher, David W ^a  

^a TERC   (United States)

Author keywords

Concepts; Everyday mathematics; School mathematics; Street mathematics

Indexed keywords

EID: 48449099148     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-008-9126-4     Document Type: Article

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