Learning about what fits: Preschool children's reasoning about effects of object size

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 290-302

  Sophian, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Conceptual knowledge; Early childhood; Measurement; Patterns, relationships in mathematics; Preschool primary; Visualization spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036637943     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749742     Document Type: Article

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