Beginning pre-service teachers’ approaches to teaching the area concept: Identifying tendencies towards realistic, structuralist, mechanist or empiricist mathematics education

European Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-43

  Oldham, Elizabeth ^a   van der Valk, Ton ^b   Broekman, Harrie ^b   Berenson, Sarah ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NONE

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EID: 70449661913     PISSN: 02619768     EISSN: 14695928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0261976990220103     Document Type: Article

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