Growing minds, growing mathematical understanding: Mathematical understanding, abstraction and interaction

Learning Mathematics: From Hierarchies to Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 209-231

  Kieren, Thomas ^a   Pirie, Susan ^b   Calvert, Lynn Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203016466-20     Document Type: Chapter

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