Prospective teachers' learning to provide instructional explanations: How does it look and what might it take?

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 441-463

  Charalambous, Charalambos Y ^a   Hill, Heather C ^b   Ball, Deborah L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^c University of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Instructional explanations; Mathematics; Prospective teachers; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155139011     PISSN: 13864416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10857-011-9182-z     Document Type: Article

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