Do mathematics textbooks cultivate shallow teaching? Applying the timss video study criteria to Australian eighth-grade mathematics textbooks

Mathematics Education Research Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-107

  Vincent, Jill ^a   Stacey, Kaye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 78649338445     PISSN: 10332170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03217470     Document Type: Article

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