Analyzing students' conceptualization through their drawings

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 2681-2684

  Ilkorucu Gocmencelebi, Şirin ^a   Tapan, Menekşe Seden ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

biological drawing; geometric drawing; mathematics education; Primary teachers; science education

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957710786     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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