Authentic practices as contexts for learning to draw inferences beyond correlated data

Mathematical Thinking and Learning

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 132-151

  Dierdorp, Adri ^a   Bakker, Arthur ^a   Eijkelhof, Harrie ^a   van Maanen, Jan ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 78951478948     PISSN: 10986065     EISSN: 15327833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10986065.2011.538294     Document Type: Article

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