Mobile-device-supported problem-based computational estimation instruction for elementary school students

Educational Technology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 55-69

  Lan, Yu Ju ^a   Sung, Yao Ting ^a   Tan, Ning chun ^b   Lin, Chiu Pin ^c   Chang, Kuo En ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computational estimation; Mobile learning; Number sense; Problem based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958086299     PISSN: 11763647     EISSN: 14364522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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