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Publication details [#28453]

Nathan, Mitchell J., Scott D. Long and Martha W. Alibali. 2002. The symbol precedence view of mathematical development: A corpus analysis of the rhetorical structure of textbooks. Discourse Processes 33 (1) : 1–21.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

corpus analysis | education | mathematics | structure building framework | textbook

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study examines a corpus of (pre)algebra textbooks for the symbol precedence pattern of mathematical development currently found in high school teachers' instructional practices.