Children's Understanding of the Relation between Addition and Subtraction: Inversion, Identity, and Decomposition

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 194-212

  Bryant, Peter ^a   Christie, Clare ^a   Rendu, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addition; Arithmetic; Computation; Decomposition of number; Inversion; Mathematics; Reversibility; Subtraction

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 0033226816     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jecp.1999.2517     Document Type: Article

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