MATHEMATICAL CREATIVITY AND GIFTEDNESS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: TASK AND TEACHER PROMOTING CREATIVITY FOR ALL

Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 253-270

  Hershkovitz, Sara ^a   Peled, Irit ^b   Littler, Graham ^c  

^a Center of Educational Technology   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c NONE

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EID: 85142794454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/9789087909352_017     Document Type: Chapter

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