Preservice teachers' knowledge of students' cognitive processes about the division of fractions;Öǧretmen adaylarinin kesi•rlerde bölmeye i•li̇şki•n öǧrenci•leri•n bi•li•şsel süreçleri• hakkindaki• bi•lgi•leri•

Hacettepe Egitim Dergisi

Volumn , Issue 35, 2008, Pages 175-185

  Işiksal, Mine ^a   Çakiroǧlu, Erdinç ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Division of fractions; Mathematics education; Pedagogical content knowledge; Preservice elementary mathematics teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 75449093201     PISSN: 13005340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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