Determining and overcoming preservice elementary teachers' misconceptions in interpreting and applying decimals.

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1998
Cankoy, Osman

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O. Cankoy, “Determining and overcoming preservice elementary teachers’ misconceptions in interpreting and applying decimals.,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 1998.