Will we ever teach mathematics again in the way we used to before the pandemic?

Johann Engelbrecht1, Marcelo C Borba2, Gabriele Kaiser3

  • 1University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

ZDM : the International Journal on Mathematics Education
|January 23, 2023
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