Seeking research-grounded solutions to problems of practice: Classroom-based interventions in mathematics education

ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 333-341

  Stylianides, Andreas J ^a   Stylianides, Gabriel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classroom based interventions; Design experiment methodology; Educational innovations; Mathematics education; Scaling up; Theory and practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887343939     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-013-0501-y     Document Type: Article

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