Children's mathematical reasoning with the turtle programming metaphor

Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors, and Images

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 313-338

  Clements, Douglas H ^a   Sarama, Julie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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