Reading in the math class: Selecting and using picture books for math investigations

Young Children

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 20-26

  Thatcher, Debra H ^a  

^a NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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