Consistency of students' ideas about the concept of rate across different contexts

Egitim ve Bilim

Volumn 36, Issue 162, 2011, Pages 273-287

  Bektaşli, Behzat ^a   Çakmakci, Gültekin ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Concept of rate; Consistency; Misconceptions; Velocity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872691143     PISSN: 13001337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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