Whodunit? Exploring Proportional Reasoning Through the Footprint Problem

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 92-98

  Koellner Clark, Karen ^a   Lesh, Richard ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 77956440773     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2003.tb18224.x     Document Type: Article

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