What fills the gap between discrete and dense? Greek and Flemish students' understanding of density

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 676-685

  Vamvakoussi, Xenia ^a   Christou, Konstantinos P ^b   Mertens, Lieve ^a   Van Dooren, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Conceptual change; Density property; Rational numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960050993     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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