Collaborative teacher inquiry as a tool for building theory on the development and use of rich mathematical tasks

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-221

  Slavit, David ^a   Nelson, Tamara Holmlund ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative inquiry; Mathematical tasks; Secondary teachers; Teacher development; Teacher research; Theory building

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952427475     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-009-9136-x     Document Type: Article

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