The predominance of the linear model in secondary school students' solutions of word problems involving length and area of similar plane figures

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 65-83

  De Bock, Dirk ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a   Janssens, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 54549127983     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003151011999     Document Type: Article

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