Facilitating children's proportional reasoning: A model of reasoning processes and effects of intervention on strategy change

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 589-603

  Fujimura, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0035438182     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.93.3.589     Document Type: Article

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