Should proof be minimal? Ms T's evaluation of secondary school students' proofs

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-67

  Tsamir, Pessia ^a   Tirosh, Dina ^a   Dreyfus, Tommy ^a   Barkai, Ruthi ^a   Tabach, Michal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elementary number theory; Pedagogical content knowledge; Proofs; Subject matter knowledge; Teacher knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349276647     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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