Developing pre-service teachers understanding of fractions through problem posing

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 166-175

  Toluk Uçar, Zülbiye ^a  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Beliefs; Fractions; Methods course; Pre service teachers; Problem posing

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649100354     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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