An investigation of relationships between students' mathematical problem-posing abilities and their mathematical content knowledge

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 117-132

  Van Harpen, Xianwei Y ^a   Presmeg, Norma C ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Correlation; Mathematical content knowledge; Mathematical problem posing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876185677     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-012-9456-0     Document Type: Article

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