Trends in the development of student level of reasoning in pattern generalization tasks across grade level

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-92

  Jurdak, Murad Eid ^a   El Mouhayar, Rabih Raif ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Complexity of a task; Developmental trends; Level of reasoning; SOLO taxonomy; Type of functional relationship; Type of generalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890880085     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-013-9494-2     Document Type: Article

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