Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2026

Full Length Research Paper

Pre-service teachers’ cognitive competencies to use the approaches in mathematics teaching: Discovery learning

Rezan Yilmaz
  • Rezan Yilmaz
  • Department of Secondary Education Science and Mathematics Teaching, Faculty of Education, Ondokuz May?s University, 55139, Samsun, Turkey.
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  •  Received: 28 April 2014
  •  Accepted: 27 October 2014
  •  Published: 10 November 2014

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