Changing Mathematics Instruction and Assessment: Challenging Teachers' Conceptions

Mathematics Teacher Education: Critical International Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 17-25

  Amit, Miriam ^a   Hillman, Susan ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203486924-9     Document Type: Chapter

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