Tools and Settings Supporting Mathematics Teachers’ Learning in and from Practice

New ICMI Study Series

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages 185-209

  Ponte, João Pedro da ^c   Zaslavsky, Orit ^c   Silver, Ed ^c   Borba, Marcelo de Carvalho ^c   Gal, Hagar ^c   Fiorentini, Dario ^c   Miskulin, Rosana ^c   Passos, Cármen ^c   Palis, Gilda de La Rocque ^c   Huang, Rongjin ^c   Chapman, Olive ^c   Heuvel Panhuizen, Marja van den ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Lesson Study; Mathematics Teacher; Mathematics Teacher Education; Teacher Education; Video Case

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969863248     PISSN: 13876872     EISSN: 22151745     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09601-8_20     Document Type: Chapter

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