Strategic competence: Applying Siegler's theoretical and methodological framework to the domain of simple addition

European Journal of Psychology of Education

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 275-291

  Torbeyns, Joke ^a   Verschaffel, Lieven ^a   Ghesquière, Pol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Methodology; Simple addition; Strategic change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036711194     PISSN: 02562928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03173537     Document Type: Article

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