Teachers' approaches towards word problem solving: Elaborating or restricting the problem context

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 152-160

  Depaepe, Fien ^a,b   De Corte, Erik ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a  

^a Centre for Instructional Psychology and Technology   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Classroom environment; Elementary school mathematics; Problem solving; Teaching methods; Videotape recordings

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149128478     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.03.016     Document Type: Article

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