Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2008

Full Length Research Paper

Affordances for connecting culture and Mathematics: Moving from curriculum to school textbooks

Sylvia Madusise
  • Sylvia Madusise
  • Robert Mugabe School of Education and Culture, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe.
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  •  Received: 17 May 2020
  •  Accepted: 18 August 2020
  •  Published: 30 September 2020

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