The missing data point: Negotiating purposes in classroom mathematics and science

Thinking Practices in Mathematics and Science Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 89-126

  O'Connor, Mary Catherine ^a   Godfrey, Lynne ^b   Moses, Robert P ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Algebra Project Inc ^*  (United States)

^c The Algebra Project Inc   (United States)

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