Preservice Teachers' Beliefs and Attitude About Teaching and Learning Mathematics Through Music: An Intervention Study

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 236-248

  An, Song A ^a   Ma, Tingting ^a   Capraro, Mary Margaret ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitude; beliefs; connection; intervention; Mathematics; music

Indexed keywords

EID: 85171777739     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.2011.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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