Storytelling sagas: An effective medium for teaching early childhood mathematics

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 167-172

  Casey, Beth ^a   Kersh, Joanne E ^a   Young, Jessica Mercer ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood mathematics; Geometry; Graphing; Measurement; NCTM; Problem solving; Spatial reasoning; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842659809     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2004.01.011     Document Type: Article

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