Professional development through lesson study: teaching the derivative using GeoGebra

Professional Development in Education

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 109-126

  Verhoef, Nellie C ^a   Coenders, Fer ^a   Pieters, Jules M ^a   van Smaalen, Daan ^a   Tall, David O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

calculus; derivative; GeoGebra; lesson study; sense making; teachers professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917740429     PISSN: 19415257     EISSN: 19415265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19415257.2014.886285     Document Type: Article

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