Teachers' beliefs about school mathematics and mathematicians' mathematics and their relationship to practice

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 127-147

  Beswick, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Belief systems; Nature of mathematics; School mathematics; Teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 82555189799     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-011-9333-2     Document Type: Article

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