How to Replace Word Problems with Activities of Realistic Mathematical Modelling

New ICMI Study Series

Volumn 10, Issue , 2007, Pages 185-192

  Bonotto, Cinzia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classroom Activity; Classroom Culture; Cultural Artefact; School Mathematic; Word Problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 85067918123     PISSN: 13876872     EISSN: 22151745     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-29822-1_18     Document Type: Chapter

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