Characteristics of teachers' choice of examples in and for the mathematics classroom

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 165-182

  Zodik, Iris ^a   Zaslavsky, Orit ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Examples; Mathematics teaching practice; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 51549117477     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-008-9140-6     Document Type: Article

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