Social and analytic scaffolding in middle school mathematics: Managing the dilemma of telling

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-26

  Baxter, Juliet A ^a   Williams, Steven ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constructivist teaching; Discourse; Scaffolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949303360     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-009-9121-4     Document Type: Article

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