Assessing Number Sense of Students in Australia, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States

School Science and Mathematics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 61-70

  Reys, Robert ^a   Reys, Barbara ^a   Emanuelsson, Göran ^b   Johansson, Bengt ^b   McIntosh, Alistair ^c   Yang, Der Ching ^d  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d St John's St Mary's Institute of Technology   (United States)

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EID: 10044251693     PISSN: 00366803     EISSN: 19498594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8594.1999.tb17449.x     Document Type: Article

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