Young students' readiness for advanced math: Precocious abstract reasoning

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 206-223

  Ablard, Karen E ^b   Tissot, Sherri L ^a  

^a AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031537016     PISSN: 01623532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/016235329802100205     Document Type: Article

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