Teachers’ Conceptions of Algebra and Knowledge of Task Purposes

2019-02-28
Alapala, Burcu
İşler Baykal, Işıl
Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, (2019)

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Citation Formats
B. Alapala and I. İşler Baykal, “Teachers’ Conceptions of Algebra and Knowledge of Task Purposes,” presented at the Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, (2019), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/CERME11.