Categorizing pupils' written answers to a mathematics test question: 'I know but I can't explain'

Educational Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 269-282

  Evens, Hilary ^a   Houssart, Jenny ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Explaining; Mathematics; Primary; Reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644260719     PISSN: 00131881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0013188042000277331     Document Type: Article

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