Big Math for Little Kids

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 159-166

  Greenes, Carole ^a   Ginsburg, Herbert P ^b   Balfanz, Robert ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicating mathematically; Mathematics curriculum; Mathematics learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842659813     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2004.01.010     Document Type: Article

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