“Knowing what to believe”: The relevance of students' mathematical beliefs for mathematics education

Personal Epistemology: The Psychology of Beliefs about Knowledge and Knowing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 297-320

  De Corte, Erik ^a   Op't Eynde, Peter ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203424964     Document Type: Chapter

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