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Values and Classroom Interaction: Students’ Struggle for Sense Making

Reasoning Discourse and Patterns of Student Participation in Classrooms from Germany and Hong Kong

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Mathematics Education in Different Cultural Traditions-A Comparative Study of East Asia and the West

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Jablonka, E., Keitel, C. (2006). Values and Classroom Interaction: Students’ Struggle for Sense Making. In: Leung, F.K.S., Graf, KD., Lopez-Real, F.J. (eds) Mathematics Education in Different Cultural Traditions-A Comparative Study of East Asia and the West. New ICMI Study Series, vol 9. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29723-5_30

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