Students' perceptions of institutional practices: The case of limits of functions in college level Calculus courses

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 341-358

  Hardy, Nadia ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anthropological Theory of the Didactic; Calculus; Institution; Institutional theory; Limits; Praxeology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893660230     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-009-9199-8     Document Type: Article

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