Problem-solving rubrics revisited: Attending to the blending of informal conceptual and formal mathematical reasoning

Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hull, Michael M ^a   Kuo, Eric ^a   Gupta, Ayush ^a   Elby, Andrew ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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EID: 84874518225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15549178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.9.010105     Document Type: Article

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