Creative contexts as ways to strengthen mathematics learning

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue , 2012, Pages 538-542

  Voica, Cristian ^a   Singer, Florence Mihaela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b PETROLEUM GAS UNIVERSITY OF PLOIESTI   (Romania)

Author keywords

cognitive framing; cognitive novelty; cognitive variety; creativity; problem posing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859069093     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.01.179     Document Type: Conference Paper

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