Reflective, systemic and analytic thinking in real numbers

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-22

  Zachariades, Theodossios ^a   Christou, Constantinos ^b   Pitta Pantazi, Demetra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Analytic; Real number; Reflective; Systemic; Theoretical thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871094176     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-012-9413-y     Document Type: Article

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