Declining participation in post-compulsory secondary school mathematics: Students' views of and solutions to the problem

Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-285

  Murray, Sara ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

attitudes; participation; post compulsory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859364385     PISSN: 14794802     EISSN: 17540178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14794802.2011.624731     Document Type: Article

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