Taking up opportunities to learn: Constructing dispositions in mathematics classrooms

Journal of the Learning Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 327-369

  Gresalfi, Melissa Sommerfeld ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 70449436472     PISSN: 10508406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10508400903013470     Document Type: Article

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