Didactical designs for students' proportional reasoning: An "open approach" lesson and a "fundamental situation"

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 199-218

  Miyakawa, Takeshi ^a   Winsløw, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Didactical design; Didactical engineering; Lesson study; Open approach method; Proportionality; Similarity; Theory of didactical situations

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350398211     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-009-9188-y     Document Type: Article

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