Exploring Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Probability and Its Teaching

  1. Estrada, Assumpta
  2. Batanero, Carmen
  3. Díaz, Carmen 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Libro:
Teaching and Learning Stochastics

ISSN: 2520-8322 2520-8330

ISBN: 9783319728704 9783319728711

Año de publicación: 2018

Páginas: 313-332

Tipo: Capítulo de Libro

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-72871-1_18 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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