Verbal Justification-is it a Proof? Secondary School Teachers' Perceptions

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1071-1090

  Tabach, Michal ^a   Barkai, Ruthi ^a   Tsamir, Pessia ^a   Tirosh, Dina ^a   Dreyfus, Tommy ^a   Levenson, Esther ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

elementary number theory; teachers' knowledge about proofs; verbal proof

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449238096     PISSN: 15710068     EISSN: 15731774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10763-010-9230-7     Document Type: Article

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