Quantifying Path Length: Fourth-Grade Children's Developing Abstractions for Linear Measurement

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 475-520

  Barrett, Jeffrey E ^a   Clements, Douglas H ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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EID: 1042268266     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532690xci2104_4     Document Type: Review

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