Mathematics and science in Finnish comprehensive school

How Finns Learn Mathematics and Science

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 35-48

  Lampiselkä, Jarkko ^a   Ahtee, Maija ^b   Pehkonen, Erkki ^a   Meri, Matti ^a   Eloranta, Varpu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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