Early understandings of numbers: Paths or barriers to the construction of new understandings?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 341-374

  Hartnett, Patrice ^a   Gelman, Rochel ^b  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0000527765     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4752(97)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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