Assessing children’s mathematical thinking in practical modelling situations

Teaching Mathematics and its Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 145-159

  Tanner, Howard ^a   Jones, Sonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

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ACTION RESEARCH; EQUIVALENT CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL THINKING; MODELING TASK; PRACTICAL MODEL; QUASI-EXPERIMENTS; RESEARCH GROUPS; SECONDARY SCHOOLS; TEACHERS'; THINKING SKILLS;

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EID: 84926225958     PISSN: 02683679     EISSN: 14716976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/teamat/21.4.145     Document Type: Article

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