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Situated multiplying in primary school: counting instead of adding !

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Situated multiplying in primary school: counting instead of adding ! / Ruwisch, Silke.
Developments in Mathematics Education in German-speaking Countries: Selected Papers from the Annual Conference on Didactics of Mathematics, Bern, 1999. ed. / Hans-Georg Weigand; Neville Neill; Andrea Peter-Koop; Kristina Reiss; Günter Törner; Bernd Wollring. Verlag Franzbecker, 2002. p. 67-75.

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Harvard

Ruwisch, S 2002, Situated multiplying in primary school: counting instead of adding ! in H-G Weigand, N Neill, A Peter-Koop, K Reiss, G Törner & B Wollring (eds), Developments in Mathematics Education in German-speaking Countries: Selected Papers from the Annual Conference on Didactics of Mathematics, Bern, 1999. Verlag Franzbecker, pp. 67-75, 33. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik - 1999, Bern, Switzerland, 01.03.99.

APA

Ruwisch, S. (2002). Situated multiplying in primary school: counting instead of adding ! In H.-G. Weigand, N. Neill, A. Peter-Koop, K. Reiss, G. Törner, & B. Wollring (Eds.), Developments in Mathematics Education in German-speaking Countries: Selected Papers from the Annual Conference on Didactics of Mathematics, Bern, 1999 (pp. 67-75). Verlag Franzbecker.

Vancouver

Ruwisch S. Situated multiplying in primary school: counting instead of adding ! In Weigand HG, Neill N, Peter-Koop A, Reiss K, Törner G, Wollring B, editors, Developments in Mathematics Education in German-speaking Countries: Selected Papers from the Annual Conference on Didactics of Mathematics, Bern, 1999. Verlag Franzbecker. 2002. p. 67-75

Bibtex

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