Introduction

New ICMI Study Series

Volumn 10, Issue , 2007, Pages 3-32

  Niss, Mogens ^a   Blum, Werner ^b   Galbraith, Peter ^c  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mathematics Classroom; Modelling Activity; Modelling Competency; Real World Problem; Teacher Education Programme

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926313924     PISSN: 13876872     EISSN: 22151745     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-29822-1_1     Document Type: Chapter

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