Onfucian heritage culture learner's phenomenon: From "exploring the middle zone "to" constructing a bridge"

ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 973-981

  Wong, Ngai Ying ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Basic skills; Bianshi teaching; Confucian heritage culture; Higher order thinking; Pedagogy of variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952300939     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-008-0140-x     Document Type: Article

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