Issues in the design of an environment to support the learning of mathematical generalisation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5192 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 326-337

  Pearce, Darren ^a   Mavrikis, Manolis ^b   Geraniou, Eirini ^b   Gutiérrez, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TASKS; DESIGN ISSUES; DESIGN PROCESSES; GENERALISATION; ITERATIVE PROCESSES;

ALGEBRA; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 56449119654     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87605-2_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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