I actually started to scream: Emotional and mathematical trauma from doing school mathematics homework

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-51

  Lange, Troels ^a   Meaney, Tamsin ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Children's narratives; Ideological model of numeracy; Mathematics homework

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954720400     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-011-9298-1     Document Type: Article

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