Children's approaches to the concept of volume

Science Education

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 341-360

  Potari, Despina ^a   Spiliotopoulou, Vassiliki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

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EID: 0030551138     PISSN: 00368326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-237X(199606)80:3<341::AID-SCE4>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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